Environmental port charges

The Port of Turku has been applying, since 1 January 2006, a vessel charge tariff that takes into account e.g. the sulphur content of the fuel used by the vessels and the nitrogen emissions from the vessels. The goal of the environmental port charges is to guide the shipping companies to use fuel with a lower sulphur content and introduce technology to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Discount is granted, if an acceptable certificate or report of the sulphur content of fuel or the vessel?s nitrogen emissions is presented to the Port.

In individual cases the Port has the right to make a development agreement with a shipping company on measures for limiting noise and particle emissions, if required by the Port´s operations.

Environmental discounts also concern waste management. If a vessel sorts its waste in the way approved by the Port, a discount is granted on the waste management charge for solid waste. A requirement for the discount is that an acceptable certificate of waste sorting is presented to the Port.

In addition, the Port of Turku may grant a vessel a discount on the waste management charge for oily waste, if the vessel can show that it uses equipment, methods or fuel which keep the volume of oily waste left on land smaller than usual.

More detailed information about the discounts under charges:

Vessel charge, waste management and passenger traffic charges.