We were very pleased to hear from Eelco from Stichting de Noordzee that we can use the old lifevessel from MAERSK for our Yangtze River trip in 2009. After our trip Stichting De Noordzee will use the vessel for research on the Northsea.

This is the first step to make that trip a reality!

AIESEC SISU will start on the 26^th of September to organize the Yangtze River Coordinators and 10 schools in 28 cities along the Yangtze River to join the program.

Further we found a Chinese hosting company willing to look after our hosting necessities. This is great news, because we will launch our outreach campaign after the October holidays.

Ten schools joined the YOURPORT event on September 4th – world harbor-days event in Rotterdam last Friday. Marinedream was invited to show on this day, the video with a compilation of the presentations of World Ocean Day 2009 Rotterdam.

We were very pleased that 300 students watched the movie. Four out of the ten schools that were present that day showed an interest to join the Aqualife program and beach cleanup. The killing of sharks and dolphins triggered the interest of students to start to get to know more about what they can do to help.

Many thanks to our volunteers Greetje en Adams senior.

Marinedream @ yourport - Rotterdam

We are starting to make progress how we can get sustainable fish into Shanghai. Chef Xavier from New Heights and Chef Brendan from Sasha’s have been great supporters of the project and great help with the taste testing. Charity dinners will start in October 2009. Lakeside Ville will be the first to start this series of events in Shanghai. Marinedream tried the recipes last weekend and it was yummie!

The Marine Steward Council starts to set firm ground in China as well as they are giving courses about MSC certification in Qindao. First steps to get sustainable fish into China