The Suez Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world – during the last year 17,148 ships passed through the Canal – reducing emissions, saving time, and operating costs to shippers. The rapid increase in ship size from the “Post-Suezmax” (> 12,000 TEU) to the latest container vessels (> 19,000 TEU) now requires enlargements of port facilities and canals. A project of this magnitude, and with potentially negative environmental outcomes, requires a transparent and scientifically sound “Environmental Impact Assessment” (EIA). An explicit obligation on Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (https://www.cbd.int/doc/ legal/cbd-en.pdf) was made to consider transboundary impacts on biodiversity, particularly those associated with invasive non-indigenous species.

The Enlargement of the Suez Canal and Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species to the Mediterranean Sea / Galil, Bella; Boero, Ferdinando; Fraschetti, Simona; Piraino, Stefano; Campbell, Marnie; Hewitt, Chad; Carlton, James; Cook, Elizabeth; Jelmert, Anders; Macpherson, Enrique; Marchini, Agnese; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Anna; Mckenzie, Cynthia; Minchin, Dan; Ojaveer, Henn; Olenin, Sergej; Ruiz, Greg. - In: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY BULLETIN. - ISSN 1539-607X. - 24:(2015), pp. 43-45. [10.1002/lob.10036]

The Enlargement of the Suez Canal and Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species to the Mediterranean Sea

Boero Ferdinando;Fraschetti Simona;
2015

Abstract

The Suez Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world – during the last year 17,148 ships passed through the Canal – reducing emissions, saving time, and operating costs to shippers. The rapid increase in ship size from the “Post-Suezmax” (> 12,000 TEU) to the latest container vessels (> 19,000 TEU) now requires enlargements of port facilities and canals. A project of this magnitude, and with potentially negative environmental outcomes, requires a transparent and scientifically sound “Environmental Impact Assessment” (EIA). An explicit obligation on Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (https://www.cbd.int/doc/ legal/cbd-en.pdf) was made to consider transboundary impacts on biodiversity, particularly those associated with invasive non-indigenous species.
2015
The Enlargement of the Suez Canal and Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species to the Mediterranean Sea / Galil, Bella; Boero, Ferdinando; Fraschetti, Simona; Piraino, Stefano; Campbell, Marnie; Hewitt, Chad; Carlton, James; Cook, Elizabeth; Jelmert, Anders; Macpherson, Enrique; Marchini, Agnese; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Anna; Mckenzie, Cynthia; Minchin, Dan; Ojaveer, Henn; Olenin, Sergej; Ruiz, Greg. - In: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY BULLETIN. - ISSN 1539-607X. - 24:(2015), pp. 43-45. [10.1002/lob.10036]
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