This is the official website of the project "Clean Baltic Sea Shipping".

The project Clean Baltic Sea Shipping or "CLEANSHIP" is funded by the "Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013". The project is part of the Action Plan of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, especially priority 4 "To become a model region for clean shipping". CLEANSHIP is dedicated to substantiate the goals and strategies of several organisations like HELCOM, CBSS and BSSSC. Futhermore the project  has received the accolade by the „Baltic Sea Programme 2007-2013 as a Strategic Project.

The goals of the project are best described by the Letter of Support by the Helsinki Commission or Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) :

Quote: HELCOM would herewith like to express support for the project "Clean Baltic Sea Shipping", funded under the 3rd Call to the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013.

The overall goals of the Clean Baltic Sea Shipping project are to reduce ship borne air pollution in the Baltic Sea in general and in ports and port cities of the Baltic Sea Region in particular. The project will result in solutions which will be possible to apply directly in order to obtain less polluting shipping in the vulnerable, and today so exposed, Baltic Sea.

The HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (HELCOM BSAP) requires the Baltic Sea countries to take actions to reduce emissions from ships and ensure adequate port reception facilities for sewage. HELCOM countries have already proposed to the International Maritime Organization the designation of the Baltic Sea as a control area under Annex IV to MARPOL 73/78 to ban discharges of untreated sewage from passenger ships. For the proposal to take effect, adequate reception facilities for sewage have to be available in the Baltic Sea. The Clean Baltic Sea Shipping project constitutes an opportunity to facilitate the implementation by the nine HELCOM Baltic Coastal States and the European Community of the obligations undertaken in the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan.

HELCOM would, therefore, be willing to offer its cooperation structure, making use of HELCOM meetings, conferences, etc., as a means to consider and discuss the project products, processes and outcomes, and in this way also test and integrate it with work carried out under HELCOM. This would also give a possibility for considering HELCOM's position by the end of the Project to display and host project outcomes, and thus ensuring the sustainability of the Project. Unquote.