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For each port, whether small or big, dredging campaigns are a necessary cost to be paid for enable commercial, fishing and marina’s activities. Beyond the economic cost, the environmental impacts can be of great importance for the surroundings of the port.

Small ports face two difficulties that bigger ports can address more easily, meaning optimizing the cost of dredging and limiting its effects on the port ‘surroundings environment.

Local ports in Europe are subject to different marine conditions depending on their geographical situation and to European and national legislations that impact the way they address the issue of dredging.

Through SuPorts, the small ports involved have exchanged their good practices and also met bigger ports through different events of different European projects and a core workshop in Piombino in October 2012.

The work carried out has led to focus on several sub-issues applied to sustainable dredging:

-      How to better manage dredged material

-      How to reduce the cost of dredging campaigns

-       Understanding and comparing national legislation

The best practices identified have shown many ways to deal with Sustainable dredging. These have shown for instance in the case of the Seine-Maritime County Council ports that national legislation could enable port authorities to organize together joint public procurement procedure to reduce the cost of dredging campaigns. Provided by the University of Thessaloniki, best practices have shown innovative ideas for land reclamation and rehabilitation of a polluted seabed in the port of Thessaloniki as well as the successful beneficial use of dredged material in the port of Piraeus, minimising in parallel the release of pollutants by using devices such as an environmental grab dredger and silt curtains.

Portos de Galicia has described its reflections undertaken to review its dredged material disposal sites organization to avoid both dispersed pollution and reduce bureaucratic burden when having too many disposal sites and authorizations to obtain.

The Port authority of Piombino through the writing of a publication, some other Italian ports’ good practices examples provided by ISPRA or by the Klaipeda State Seaport Authority have enabled the partnership to get a thorough overview of the methodologies, techniques and ideas that ports can have in order to face the issue of sustainable dredging.

Finally, the Seine-Maritime County Council has produced a study financed through the SuPorts project to understand the conditions of sedimentation in its port and identify solutions to limit it. A methodological guide describing the study’s methodology has been shared with the SuPorts partners.

A dedicated handbook included in the SuPorts final Scrapbook compiles all these practices and results and will be available to all ports interested in the topic.

In major European exhibition on the cruise in the Mediterranean countries, Seatrade Med 2012 in Marseilles held in November 27-29, participated with its own stand and this year the Port of Igoumenitsa, highlighting the port of Igoumenitsa, Epirus and the Northwest Greece generally, as a cruise destination representatives of larger companies and cruise operators worldwide.

The booth O.L.IG. Inc., provided an opportunity for potential visitors to travel to our area through images and representations, areas of natural beauty and cultural interest from Thesprotia, Ioannina, Preveza, Arta and Meteora. Areas that until now were unknown to the public of the cruise and can now be reachable from the port of Igoumenitsa.

During the exhibition O.L.IG. SA, as a member of the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports Medcruise, participated in the General Assembly, held Monday 11/26/2012. The Medcruise deals with the study of the development and promotion of cruise ports located in the Mediterranean region.

As part of the contacts were the President and CEO of O.L.IG. SA Mr. Tzovaras Constantine and Development Director of the company Mr. Constantine Grinias, meetings were held with representatives of cruise lines expressed and / or reaffirmed their interest in Igoumenitsa as cruise destination. Examples include the Royal Caribbean, the MSC Cruises, the Seabourn, the Saga Cruise and Princess Cruises.

As is already known, in 2013 28 scheduled cruise arrivals at the port of Igoumenitsa.

On the sidelines of the exhibition, the mission of O.L.IG. SA had the opportunity to talk with representatives from other European ports for the operation and requirements of both the cruise and the ports of the bodies and the business of each destination.

The President and CEO of O.L.IG. SA Mr. Tzovaras in statements noted: "the last time, the agency continued effort to complete interventions and improvements to the Port of Igoumenitsa, from its own resources, to enhance the services provided to cruise ships and their passengers, with market buffers, configuration space to accommodate cruise passengers, and landscaping of the site of attachment.

The timely completion of the second phase of the port will be crucial for achieving the organization's goals: the establishment of the port of Igoumenitsa and the region as a cruise destination. "