Maersk Tender and also Maersk Trader, both Maersk Supply Service anchor-handling vessels presently sustaining The Ocean Cleanup in the Pacific Ocean, have actually been acquired for an added year of procedures.

Since 2018, Maersk Supply Service has actually job taken care of and also provided overseas advocate The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch environment-friendly technology charitable organisation establishing and also scaling plastic-harvesting modern technologies to free the seas of drifting plastic.

The offshore projects have actually happened in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the biggest build-up of sea plastic worldwide, and also have actually included towing and also trialling The Ocean Cleanup’s plastic-harvesting systems, in order to optimize the systems’ feasibility and also ability for succeeding scale-ups. With safety and security at the leading edge of all its procedures, Maersk Supply Service has actually sustained The Ocean Cleanup’s objective via its expert maritime know-how, performing the overseas aspect securely and also successfully in a really remote area.

In May 2021, Maersk Supply Service dedicated a 2nd vessel and also staff to the procedures for System 002. By October, the groups got to a significant landmark, with the vessels returning from a 2nd overseas trip with evidence of modern technology after an effective test, which established that The Ocean Cleanup’s System 002 can securely, successfully, over and over again, and also accurately get rid of plastic from the seas. System 002 remains to gather plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in tandem with the onshore growth of System 03, a bigger variation developed to work as the plan for future scale-up.

“Ocean health is integral to Maersk Supply Service’s core values and strategy. The oceans hold the key to many of the energy challenges ahead of us and so we believe we have a responsibility to protect and restore ocean health. It is important that we proactively use our marine capabilities to improve ocean health through partnerships and policies, and so we are very pleased to be able to continue our collaboration with The Ocean Cleanup,” claims Jonas Munch Agerskov, Chief Commercial Officer at Maersk Supply Service.

To day, The Ocean Cleanup has actually accumulated around 67,000 kgs of plastic waste from theGreat Pacific Garbage Patch In enhancement to the vessels and also aquatic assistance from Maersk Supply Service, A. P. Møller-Maersk additionally supplies logistics sustain to The Ocean Cleanup, making sure worldwide end-to-end transportation of the job tools such as the accumulated sea plastic and also its river clean-up modern technologies, consisting of the Interceptor Original, the Interceptor Barrier, and also the Interceptor Tender.

Reference: maersksupplyservice.com