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Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world; and little – if any – of the country is free from the effects of shipping’s sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions.
The effects on human health, acidification of buildings, eutrophication of waterways and damage to farmland were estimated to be worth US$8 billion in 2008; a figure that, if paid for, would increase the average passenger ship fare by US$17.40. The freight rate of cargo per tonne would also need to increase by US$3.60.
Almost half of Greece’s population lives within 30km of the Port of Piraeus which records about 25,000 calls from ships a year, a quarter of which are Ro-Pax vessels.
Professor Ernestos Tzannatos of the University of Piraeus studied 25 years of fuel sales and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data for 2008 to estimate emissions from local and international traffic passing through Greek waters. A European Commission protocol was used to estimate the costs to society of the pollution that resulted.....
http://www.bairdmaritime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6426:-greek-shipping-calculating-emissions-damage-&catid=76:marine-environment&Itemid=212
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