ACO Marine fits Clarimar on Croatian ferries

The 87.6m Sveti Krševan, Supertar and Cres were each retrofitted with a Clarimar MF-2 biological-type sewage treatment plant at the Dalmont shipyard in Kraljevica, Croatia, the oldest continuously operating shipyard in the world, with a history dating back to 1729.

Robert Devetak, managing director of La Fornitrice, ACO Marine’s engineering partner which carried out the work, said, “Jadrolinija is a long-standing customer of La Fornitrice so we were delighted to have won the national tender for supplying the ACO Marine system to these vessels.”

The contract also includes the supply of detailed installation drawings to the shipyard, issuance of the requisite approval certificates from the Croatian Ship Register (HRB) and after sales servicing.

Whilst performance and cost-efficiencies were key factors in opting for the ACO Marine solution, the decision to retrofit a wastewater treatment unit was led by regulatory necessity. In 2015 Croatian authorities completed the Coastal City Pollution Control Project which mandated solutions for treating and monitoring wastewater discharges.

Following this recent success, La Fornitrice has won another contract for the retrofitting of Clarimar systems to a further five ferries in the Jadrolinija fleet. Each will be fitted out with larger Clarimar MF-3 units, which La Fornitrice will supply from mid-October 2019.