At 19 o 'clock in the evening of April 17, loaded with Chinese-produced clothing, small household appliances and other goods, China's largest ocean freighter - COSCO Holland, from Shanghai Yangshan Port, all the way west, the entire journey will be more than 20,000 nautical miles, through 11 ports, the goods from China transported to all parts of the Belt and Road.

At present, the "COSCO Holland" is sailing in the Atlantic Ocean waters, heading for the next destination. It is expected that two days later, that is, May 14 to arrive in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, before arriving in the Netherlands, the giant ship will also pass the last famous channel in this voyage - the English Channel, but the front reporter found that compared with the previous two times through the channel, the crew has more work to change fuel for the freighter.

will soon cross the English Channel, the captain said, according to the local environmental requirements, today our ship can not use ordinary fuel, but to use low sulfur oil with low sulfur content. I asked him, is anyone looking into it? The captain laughed and said that even if no one checked, environmental regulations had to be followed. 'It's not just fuel, we have a lot of environmental requirements on board.'

CCTV reporter Xin Xin: This is one of our garbage stations, then our daily household garbage should be concentrated here, and then handed over to the shore for disposal when we dock. We see here are several large buckets, this bucket is for food waste, this is for plastic waste, this is for ordinary household garbage.

In addition to China's garbage, China's sewage also needs to be centralized treatment. This is a sewage treatment unit on our ship, so it can handle a large amount of China's sewage including excrement.

"COSCO Holland" third pipe wheel Liu Fangyuan: This into a strain, strain, it belongs to aerobic bacteria. This is aerobic bacteria, is (used) to decompose our metabolites, it is now in a kind of dormant state, it goes through water, and then give it oxygen, it will be similar to activation. And then with the UV detoxification, we can just go through this pump and discharge it into the collection tank. Get as far away from the shoreline as possible, and then drain it out of the boat.

Liu Fangyuan, who is in charge of sewage treatment on the ship, said that compared with China's sewage, the sewage generated by the ship's machinery during the voyage needs to be treated more strictly, because the sewage is often oily. The oil in the sewage must be extracted through the oil-water separator before the remaining water can be discharged according to regulations.

"Cosco Holland" No. 3 pipe Liu Fangyuan: Oil is to the oil residue storage tank, and then we go to China, as well as Hamburg, Germany, can put this oil residue, through the pump, and then transported to the shore.

Liu Fangyuan said that he had seen a stretch of ten or twenty nautical miles of oil belt in the Indian Ocean, is a foreign ship does not follow the regulations, will not deal with a large number of oil pollution caused by stolen discharge. These oil stains will float at sea for a long time, causing serious pollution.

"CoSCO Holland" three pipe wheel Liu Fangyuan: will always be floating on the sea, similar to our plastic waste, five hundred years it will not decompose on the sea, it will float, float, float, float to the shore, floating to the shore, and then shore organization to salvage. The oil at sea is like the plastic waste on land, which is pollution.

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