Taking into account the increase in the emission of greenhouse gases produced by ships, during navigation and maneuvering in port, a direct consequence of the increase in maritime traffic, the international community has developed a broad set of regulations to limit such emissions. The installation in commercial ports of automatic mooring systems by means of vacuum suction cups, thus considerably reducing the time required to carry out ship mooring and unmooring maneuvers, is a factor that is considerably influencing the decrease in emissions of polluting gases in commercial ports with high traffic. The objective of the present work is to verify the influence of the use of the automatic mooring systems via vacuum suction cups on the emissions of polluting gases produced in the facilities destined to the traffic of container ships. To do this, two different calculation methods were used, Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental and Engineering Consultancy, to then compare the results of the two and thus obtain the reduction in emissions per twenty-foot equivalent unit in these terminals during mooring maneuvers. The paper concludes with a discussion on the values of the reductions in emissions obtained and the advantages of the installation of automatic mooring systems using vacuum suction cups in commercial ports located near population centers.

The objective of this paper is to define a methodology for waste management of nautical ports in Croatia according to “Nautical tourism development strategy of the Republic of Croatia 2009-2019”. This methodology is a tool to enhance the design of waste reception and to maintain high environmental quality and homogeneousness standards among all nautical ports. The correct management of the development of nautical tourism is the key factor of a sustainable development, which presumes the necessity of finding a compromise between the need for economic development and the need for preserving the environment and natural areas of Croatia.