Eco-port resumes its activities at Odesa seaport
On March, 22 the election meeting of the non-governmental organization “Eco-port” took place at Odesa Sea Port Authority head office conference hall, says OSPA. Approximately 30 public ecologists of port authority, State Enterprise “Odesa Commercial Sea Port” and stevedoring companies, performing their activities in Odesa sea port, i.e. Brooklyn-Kiev LTD, Novotech-Terminal LTD, SC “HPC Ukraina”, Novolog LTD, etc., participated in the event.
In the framework of the meeting “Eco-port” activists discussed and adopted changes into Enterprise charter, approved near-term agenda, elected the Organization Council, the chairman and his deputies. Vladislav Dzedzora, the engineer of the SE “OCSP” Environmental Control department was formally announced a new leader of Odesa sea port public ecological movement.
According to Vladimir Kiskin, the Head of OB SE “USPA” Ecological Safety Department, the non-governmental organization “Eco-port” was established in March 2009 upon an initiative of the Odesa sea port workers and became the first public ecological association in the Ukrainian maritime sector. Initially, one of the main targets of the non-governmental organization was the “protection of ecological rights and interests of Odesa sea port workers and citizens of Odesa region”. Over the period of activities from 2009 to 2013 the ecologists of SE “OCSP” succeeded in performing good deeds, including public control over liquidation of toxic landfill ,located in the close proximity to regional center, “ecological support” the realization of large-scale investment projects’, including construction of a new container terminal at the Quarantine mole, Dry port, grain terminal at Androsovsky Mole, etc., mutual performing with Odesa public organizations actions against building the coastal hills, and actions in relation to organization of ecological patrol raids at Odesa sea port, awareness-building, ecological excursions, etc. The “Eco-port” assessment was the acceptance the organization into the Public Council affiliated with the State Ecological Inspections in Odesa region’.
According to V. Kiskin, in 2013 the activity of “Eco-port” decreased due to external factors. The main factor was the reorganization of maritime sector management, discontinuance of public activity and port workers leaving, who were the core of the organization.