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The Baltic Sea Forum e.V. was founded in 1992 as Pro Baltica Forum e.V. It possesses a representative network of members from the business world, politics and administration. The Baltic Sea Forum is a private organisation which works closely together with a number of governments as well as with state-wide, regional and local institutions. The Forum renamed itself on the 20^th March of 2003 in order to express its focus on the whole Baltic Sea region even more clearly.

The Baltic Sea Forum has representatives in Bremen, Brussels, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Mönchenstein, Oslo, Riga, Schleswig-Holstein, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vilnius, and Gdansk.

Baltic Sea Magazine
Issue 3, 2008
www.balticseamagazine.eu

Annual Report 2011 of Baltic Sea Forum e.V.

30.11.2011, Hamburg

The Baltic Sea forum has issued its annual report on its activities.

Please find more information in the following document:: Annual Report BSF 2011 (PDF) (ca. 77 K)

Amber Coast Logistics

19.10.2011, Hamburg, Germany

Hafen Hamburg Marketing and partners of the EU project AMBER COAST LOGISTICS are inviting you to the project opening conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Participation is free of charge. Please register before 12^th October 2011.

Please find more information on the conference programme and the registration in the following document:: Programm (PDF) (ca. 104 K)

Conference on Logistics and Infrastructure

04.10.2011, Hamburg, Germany

Please find more information in the following document:: Programm (PDF) (ca. 834 K)

Aus- und Umbau der Energienetze

13.10.2011, Hamburg

Please register for this event via e-mail to event@baltic-sea-forum.org with your name and function and your company's or institution's name until 04.10.2011.

Please find more information in the following document:: Programm (PDF) (ca. 59 K)

CLEANSHIP and the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

The goals of the project are best described by the Helsinki Commission or Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) LETTER OF SUPPORT:
HELCOM would herewith like to express support for the project application Clean Baltic Sea Shipping, proposed to be funded under the 3rd Call to the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013. The overall goals of the Clean Baltic Sea Shipping project are to reduce ship borne air pollution in the Baltic Sea in general and in ports and port cities of the Baltic Sea Region in particular. The project will result in solutions which will be possible to apply directly in order to obtain less polluting shipping in the vulnerable, and today so exposed, Baltic Sea.
The HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (HELCOM BSAP) requires the Baltic Sea countries to take actions to reduce emissions from ships and ensure adequate port reception facilities for sewage. HELCOM countries have already proposed to the International Maritime Organization the designation of the Baltic Sea as a control area under Annex IV to MARPOL 73/78 to ban discharges of untreated sewage from passenger ships.
For the proposal to take effect, adequate reception facilities for sewage have to be available in the Baltic Sea. The Clean Baltic Sea Shipping project constitutes an opportunity to facilitate the implementation by the nine HELCOM Baltic Coastal States and the European Community of the obligations undertaken in the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan. HELCOM would, therefore, be willing to offer its cooper-ation structure, making use of HELCOM meetings, conferences, etc., as a means to consider and discuss the project products, processes and outcomes, and in this way also test and integrate it with work carried out under HELCOM.
This would also give a possibility for considering HELCOM's position by the end of the Project to display and host project outcomes, and thus ensuring the sustainability of the Project.