Export Service Centre launches Indonesia’s first environment friendly cargo depesting service, ESC-EcO2, in Denpasar, Bali
ISPM 15-certified facility to ensure continued exports from Indonesia after global ban on Methyl bromide use for export containers
INDONESIA, May 21, 2010
– The Export Service Center
(http://www.ExportServiceCentre.com), which is a member of the non-profit Kearny Alliance (http://www.kearnyalliance.org), launched Indonesia’s first environment-friendly cargo depesting facility, ESC-EcO2, in Denpasar, Bali.
ESC-EcO2 is a partnership between the Export Service Center Indonesia and the Netherland’s EcO2 B.V.
It offers methyl bromide-free ISPM 15-certified treatment solutions for wood packaging, export containers and cargo.
"This ‘green’ facility is critical to the future of Indonesia’s exports,” said Eugene Verspoor, general manager of the Export Service Centre. “From March 18th, the EU has banned the import of containers treated with methyl bromide.
"As a stop-gap measure, some fumigators treat cargo outside the container – but it is extremely poisonous, harmful to people and contributes to global warming. Also, degassing is often incomplete, subjecting containers to costly quarantine in Europe. These realities mean our services are very cost-effective for buyers."
Montreal Protocol stipulates global ban on methyl bromide
The Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances lists methyl bromide among those chemicals to be banned globally, according to Pesticides News. In issue 79, it notes that “[i]ndustrialized countries were given until 1 January 2005 to stop using MB [methyl bromide], while less developed countries were given until 2015.”
Due to a number of deaths in European cargo handling facilities due to lethal levels of methyl bromide in containers, the European Union has banned the use of the chemical in the EU as of March 18, 2010.
The benefit of this ban will reduce health risks to humans and the environment.
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