Mitigation of Marine Aggregate Dredging Impacts – Benchmarking Equipment, Practices and Technologies against Global Best Practice
- Reference:
- 08/P33
- Start Date:
- 17 July 2008
- Amount Funded:
- £66,610
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- Organisation:
- Emu Ltd (with Delft University and TG Marine Ltd)
- End Date:
- 31 March 2010
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The study considers the potential improvements for marine
dredging in terms of environmental performance. The overall
conclusion of the benchmarking exercise is that having surveyed the
world fleet, technology and practices it is not possible to
identify major improvements that are applicable to the English
industry and that would significantly enhance the environmental
performance of the English fleet. The English industry is, however,
open with regards to its environmental reporting and willing to
develop knowledge on enhancing environmental performance.