EU recently granted funding to ABS for its study on the future of the Ship Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI). In fact, the study will focus on EEDI’s ability to improve designs, boost the deployment of low carbon solutions and provide its recommendations on how to integrate innovative technologies.
The “Decarbonisation of Shipping: Technical Study on the future of the Ship Energy Efficiency Design Index” study will be conducted by a consortium of ABS, Vessel Performance Solutions (VPS) and Arcsilea Ltd.
The consortium members collectively bring a wealth of knowledge and experience on regulatory, design, construction, operations and safety. The study is intended to return preliminary results ahead of MEPC 76 in October this year and be concluded in early 2021.
…said Georgios Plevrakis, ABS Director of Global Sustainability.
The collaborators will join their forces to better improve the sustainability of the shipping industry, while finding future workable solutions.
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Among others, the study will analyse EEDI’s ability to deliver improved designs and evaluate its relationship to various technologies, while propose updated targets on decarbonisation issue.
…Edwin Pang, Founder of Arcsilea Ltd, concluded:
We look forward to working with a wide range of stakeholders in order to determine how best to design future phases of EEDI to facilitate uptake of the full range of innovative technologies.
Overall, ABS recently launched a set of safety and risk-based services to facilitate the smooth compliance to the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2021 Cyber Risk Management (CRM) guidelines.
