Heavy metals, endocrine disruptors, PCBs and other pollutants discharged into the Mediterranean: the company Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNM) was condemned on Monday for not having set up a recovery system for its polluted waters, despite injunctions.
The subsidiary of the Italian shipyard San Giorgio del Porto was fined 300,000 euros and its ex-president, Jacques Hardelay, two fines of 60,000 and 1,500 euros, for non-compliance, from September 2019 to November 2020, prefectural formal notices.
Biocides from paints
In August 2017, the shipyard had obtained authorization to operate three forms of refit of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM) as classified installations for the protection of the environment.
The operator undertook to implement, within a maximum period of six months, a temporary system for collecting “bottom” water to purify it.
The deadlines were set at 2020 and 2021 for a definitive solution.
Ship careening waters contain biocides from paints, intended to limit the development of algae and molluscs on the hull.
In the holds operated by CNM, inspections by the Regional Department for the Environment (DREAL) had identified residues of copper, zinc, lead and tributyltin, an endocrine disruptor banned since 2003 but still present on the hull of some boats, as well as PCBs recognized as ecotoxic substances.
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