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The Data Trawl Home Working Project, an innovative home working opportunity for Shetland graduates, co-ordinated by KIMO UK and run from April to December last year, has proved to be a success. To see the report   read more...

Shetland’s third Designated Landing Port for fish, Cullivoe in Yell, has joined the Fishing for Litter Scotland Project, which is co-ordinated by environmental group KIMO UK. The project aims to engage harbours and boats in reducing the amount of litter in the marine environment. Cullivoe received its designated status in late 2007 and since that time has attracted an increasing volume of vessels, which are using its convenience to land there.   read more...

Olietonnen, jerrycans, verpakkingen, volle vuilniszakken, boeien en verfblikken. Je kan het zo gek niet bedenken, of het ligt wel op de bodem van de zee. Met het project Fishing for Litter wil KIMO deze vervuiling aanpakken. KIMO Nederland en België is een vereniging van Nederlandse en Belgische kustgemeenten, die is opgericht voor de veiligheid van de kust en het milieubehoud van de Noordzee. In Noord-Nederland is het project onlangs in vier havens gestart. Bijna alle havens langs de Nederlandse kust doen inmiddels mee aan dit project.   read more...

At the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council Environment Sectoral Group Ministers agreed to support Fishing for Litter Schemes within their jurisdictions . The proposal came from the Isle of Man who presented a paper highlighting Fishing for Litter, which is coordinated by KIMO UK, as an innovative response to the environmental and economic impact of marine litter on coastal communities.   read more...

Yesterday common sense finally prevailed when Forth Ports Plc abandoned plans to tranship 7.8 million tonnes of Russian crude oil per year in the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh. The operations would have threatened several environmentally sensitive sites and placed responsibility for clean up operations, in the event of an oil spill, onto the Local Authorities around the Forth not the Port themselves.   read more...

KIMO International is increasing its remit to include all the countries around the Baltic Sea in the biggest expansion in its 17 year history. Representatives from KIMO and Baltic Municipalities met in Simrishamn, on the Swedish Baltic Coast, last week to discuss how they could cooperate on marine pollution issues in the Baltic Sea. The event, hosted by Simrishamn Kommun who proposed the expansion, saw 17 Municipalities from Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia attend and resulted in a commitment to establish a KIMO International Baltic Forum as part the KIMO Network.   read more...

On the 13th of December KIMO Netherlands/Belgium will be monitoring 15 big-bags of waste brought ashore during the Fishing for litter project. For more information   read more...

AnneMieke Korf, Alderman in Velsen and up to this year Senior Vice President of KIMO international, stood down from KIMO international during the AGM in Wexford   read more...

The Atlantic Osprey an ex roll on roll off cargo vessel departed Nykoping, in Sweden, on the 5th October carrying shipment of 4.8 tonnes of ultra hazardous spent nuclear fuel, containing Plutonium, for Sellafield in the UK to be reprocessed in the B205 Magnox plant.   read more...

For more information on the shipment of Ultra Hazardous nucleras materials through Europe   read more...

The Secretariat presented KIMO Internationals Maritime Green paper consultation response in person to John Richardson, Head of the Maritime Policy Task Force, at the EC.   read more...

At its Commission meeting this week, in Ostende, Belgium, OSPAR chose marine litter as one of the main themes at its press conference highlighting the pioneering Fishing for Litter initiative as a significant measure in addressing the problem. Guidelines on Developing Fishing for Litter projects developed by KIMO International were approved along with other measures on marine litter such as a Marine Beach Litter Monitoring Programme, led by the Netherlands and Belgium.   read more...

For more information on Compensation for Non-Toxic pollution read the following KIMO report   read more...

For the first time a range of KIMO branded merchandising is now available to purchase online either by credit card or through paypal.   read more...