Russia and Finland agree to continue studying of black carbon emissions in the Arctic

At the 37^th meeting of Russia-Finland Joint Commission on Maritime Shipping held in Helsinki the delegations of the two parties agreed on the necessity to continue studying black carbon emissions in the Arctic, says press center of Rosmorrechflot’s Marine Rescue Service.

The Russian side emphasized the necessity to consider this issue in the context of contamination risk recognition in the field of transportation and use of heavy fuel by ships, development of the risk reduction measures rather than introduction of prohibitive measures.

The Russian delegation, which included representatives of RF Transport Ministry, Rosmorrechflot’s Marine Rescue Service, Baltic Sea Ports Administration, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, FSUE Rosmorport and its North-West Basin Branch, Russian Chamber of Shipping and North-Western Shipping Company was headed by Vitaly Klyuev, Director of the Department of State Policy for Maritime and River Transport of Russia’s Transport Ministry.

The Finnish delegation included representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Finnish Transport Agency and the Finnish Transport Safety Agency .

On the agenda was also the issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of maritime environment protection in the framework of IMO and HELCOM.

The next meeting of the Commission will be held in 2018 in the Russian Federation.