POLLUTION CONTROL & CLEAN UP
Reducing Emissions, Enhancing the Environment: Water Witch’s Collaboration with Fraserburgh Harbour
Importantly, the introduction of Corbie (named aſter one of the Houses at Fraserburgh Academy) is also a great opportunity to teach local school children of all ages about the effects of marine litter – and Liverpool Waterwitch had great fun working with the Academy when it came to proposing the vessel’s name!
Key goals • The trash skimmer allows the harbour staff to carry out clean up operations more effectively and efficiently, making a difficult job easy, freeing up personnel and allowing them to be more productive;
• Engage in the local community to demonstrate the importance of the blue economy and awareness of issue of marine litter;
Fraserburgh Harbour in Scotland have committed to cleaner and greener technology by investing in a new all electric trash skimmer.
Ports and Harbours play a key role in intercepting litter and pollution found in our rivers before it enters to sea and provide a strategic opportunity to turn off the tap of plastic waste into the oceans.
Trash Skimmer boat Named ‘Corbie’ the trash skimmer facilitates not only keeping the marine environment free of surface debris, but also offering more effective and efficient harbour operations and supporting the continued decarbonisation of Fraserburgh’s Harbour operations.
• Allow the Harbour to meet it’s decarbonisation goals; • Removed a lot of the physical aspect of retriving marine litter and plastics, for faster and safer operations.
Sustainably Built The aluminium ‘VersiCat’ vessel is sustainably built from up to 75% recycled content and the hulls are 100% recyclable at the end of it’s life cycle (unlike fiberglass boats which also add to water pollution) and she is equipped with a 12-kilowatt motor from on-water electric mobility leaders Torqeedo allows her to make 6.9 knots. The motor is powered by the most up to date and safest ‘intelligent’ Power48 lithium batteries on the market. The vessel’s electric controls feature a built-in GPS, an on-board computer and display for information such as speed and input power, state of charge and remaining range, and even an advance communication system
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