The new treatment plant for wastewater (sewage) has been in full operation for three weeks now. About 170 cubic meters are now being cleaned per day, but this will increase in the summer when there are more passengers in the port. The wastewater treatment plant is designed for 400 cubic meters per day. That means 146,000 cubic meters per year, which is the equivalent of 58 Olympic swimming pools!
The Port of Trelleborg has received wastewater from the vessels for a long time. Since June 2021, a total ban on the discharge of wastewater into the Baltic Sea has come into effect, and more ships are therefore leaving this in port. Today, this wastewater is sent on to the municipal sewage treatment plant, which takes care of it and cleans it. The Port of Trelleborg is not only Scandinavia’s largest RoRo port for rolling traffic, but also with the aim to be Europe’s most sustainable RoRo port. Responsibility is a key word for the port’s sustainability work, and the Port of Trelleborg is therefore installing its own treatment plant in the port which will clean the wastewater in accordance with the best possible technology. All wastewater in the new port will be connected to the treatment plant before it is pumped on to Trelleborg municipality’s treatment plant.
The wastewater treatment plant is one of the activities in Port of Trelleborg’s EU project ”Green FIT 2025” which is co-funded by the EU.
”The “Green FIT 2025” project includes works implemented during 2021-2024. The port builds two new large berths for next-generation Ro-Pax vessels and installs shore-side electricity connections. Also, it secures supply of clean energy for ships, port operations (and city hydrogen production) by installing two wind turbines. At the new berths, two wastewater reception facilities are deployed. A port wastewater treatment plant is constructed to allow for management of ship waste in an environmentally friendly manner. The port rail connections are reconstructed in a new layout, to ensure a faster handling of intermodal trains.”
