Helsinki Port rises waste management fee for passenger ships

The Port of Helsinki has decided to increase the waste management fee for passenger ships from the next year, said an official press release on Thursday.

The port authorities published its price list for 2021 where it kept the prices unchanged for the most part with the view to ensure operations recovery after the pandemic, although the COVID-19 has increased operating costs.

The port is preparing for the new waste reception regulations by changing the waste management fee for vessels in such a way that the waste management fee contributions currently being charged separately will be incorporated into the general fee.

Although the waste management fee for passenger ships will be increased, in the future it will receive all normal waste generated aboard ships for the fee, whereas previously the amount of waste covered by the waste management fee was limited.

A waste management fee will be charged 23.86 euros according to the vessel’s tonnage, by hundred (100) net tonnage units.

Vessels carrying mainly passengers are granted a 20% discount on the waste management fee, if they discharge their domestic sewage into the port’s sewer network.

A 30% discount on the vessel fee is granted to vessels that do not produce oily engine room waste while a discount of 5% will be granted to vessels in international cruise operations that sort their plastic waste separately and leave it at the port.

The minimum fee for each vessel’s visit is €318.00 and the maximum is €5.628.00.

The RoPax ferries operating in liner traffic are all exempt from the waste management fee and the port will take care of their waste management together with their contractual partners, which means that in practice, the structural change in the waste management fee concerns international cruise ships.