BASRAN Webinar March 15, 2025

Traffic Route Baltic Sea – the impact of transport and travelling

March 15, 2025 from 11:00 -13:35 CET (from 12:00-14:35 EET)

Next BASRAN webinar on 15th of March 2025 will focus on "Traffic Route Baltic Sea – the impact of transport and travelling“

Maritime trade is one of the most important means of transportation in world economy. Cruise industry has one of the highest growth rates in tourism, and leisure sailing is a very popular way of recreational time spending for many people living next to the Baltic shores. This significance goes hand in hand with different pressures on the marine ecosystem. Underwater noise affects health and communication of marine fauna, traditional ship propulsion technologies contribute with their carbon dioxide emissions to air pollution and eutrophication and marine mass tourism can lead to recurrent peak burdens for infrastructure in some coastal areas.

This BASRAN webinar aims to take a deep dive into this topic involving experts and projects trying to find solutions.

The webinar is open to everyone!

Contacts:

Martin Weigel

RC Greifswald, D1940, Germany

BASRAN board 2023-2025

District Community and RYLA chair 2024-25

martin-weigel (at) gmx.net

PROGRAMME OF THE WEBINAR (times are CET) >>> Meet the speakers!

10:45 ZOOM LINK OPENS for Music

THE EYES OF ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE ON US

Anders Paulsson

We Care for Our World

Rotary, Mark Krawczynski (Poland), Gilber Beveridge (Australia)

11:00 OPENING WORDS

Welcome and instructions. Why today's theme is so important?

Denise Johannsson, Moderator

Opening words and Welcome to the webinar

Gun-Marie Östedt-Axelsson, Chair of BASRAN, Värmdö Skärgård Rotary Club, Sweden

"Ripples on the water"

Suzan Stenberg, Rotary International Director 2024-26 in Zone 17 & 18, Rotary Club Östersund Åre, Sweden.

11:15 PRESENTATIONS

Sustainable shipping in the future needs innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets.

Juha Kytölä, PhD (Dr Eng), Director R&D and Engineering, Wärtsilä

Marine accident management and prevention; Change in security situation?

Torben Iversen (not confirmed), HELCOM Response Working Group Chair, Royal Danish Navy Command

Invasive bites: Round goby as a game changer for Baltic pike?

Timo Rittweg, marine biology, PhD, Thuenen Institute Bremen, Germany

Short 5-minutes break

The Latvian monitoring system of alien species in ports (not confirmed)

Solvita Strake, Dr. biol., Senior researcher at Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Latvia

Revolutionizing Sea Transport: Lessons from Hydrofoiling Innovation

Tord Ringenhall, Sales Manager at Candela. Secretary of the Ekerö Rotary Club, Sweden

How anchor buoys can work as nature conservation

Cecilia Wibjörn, Marine biologist at the Archipelago Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden

Tourism impacts on marine and coastal ecosystem services