Odesa Port to Purchase Boom Fences to Contain Pollution in the Black Sea

The Port of Odesa will purchase boom barriers to contain accidental pollution in the open sea along the coast.

UAH 4.43 million will be allocated for the purchase of equipment. This is reported by Dumska with reference to the tender announced by the Odesa branch of the USPA.

In addition to boom barriers, the application also includes mooring ends and towing traverses. The USPA already purchased similar equipment for UAH 4.8 million on January 15. Then the tender was won by MARSOFT LLC. The same company will supply barrier sorption booms for almost UAH 4 million to the port of Kherson.

According to the publication’s columnist Oleksiy Sukhoi, old equipment quickly becomes unusable, so such purchases are made regularly. And considering that fuel oil, which leaked into the sea as a result of the accident of Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait, reached the Odessa coast, the booms are needed for reinsurance.

USM previously reported that fuel oil that washed ashore after the accident of Russian tankers was collected in the Odesa region.

Head of the scientific research department of the Tuzli Estuaries National Park Ivan Rusev noted that there are no guarantees that fuel oil will not wash ashore again, because millions of small fractions are still drifting in the waters of the northwestern part of the Black Sea.