Ship Emissions and Their Externalities at the Container Terminal of Piraeus – Greece

Abstract

Ship exhaust emission inventories and their associated externalities constitute valuable<br />information resources towards policy making and management of the influence exerted by shipping on air<br />quality. To this extent, the container terminal at the Greek Port of Piraeus by virtue of its shipping significance<br />and its urbanised character was selected in order to provide an estimation of the emissions produced by the<br />ship activity within the terminal and to monetarise their adverse effects upon the environment and the local<br />population in particular. With reference to the year 2006, the relevant annual emission inventory generated<br />during in-port ship manoeuvring and at berth was found to be equal to 16,104 tons, divided into 294, 264,<br />15,504, 16.5 and 26.4 tons of NOx, SO2, CO2, HC and PM, respectively. The overall damage of these<br />emissions was estimated to be around 7.5 million euro, comprised by 2.15, 3.35, 0.6, 0.003 and 1.35 million<br />euro of NOx, SO2, CO2, HC and PM, respectively. The findings of this work, along with similar studies<br />recently conducted in neighbouring locations, provide useful information towards the completion of a detailed<br />and accurate picture of ship exhaust emissions and their externalities within the region of the eastern<br />Mediterranean.