Subscribe to our Mailing Lists (It's free!)
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
SAFETY4SEA
  • Home
  • Safety
    • All
    • Accidents
    • Alerts
    • Loss Prevention
    • Maritime Health
    • Regulation
    • Safety
    • Seafarers
    • Security
    recaap isc armed robbery

    ReCAAP ISC: Three armed robbery incidents against ships in Asia

    iswan iranian seafarers union

    ISWAN, Iranian seafarers’ trade union to improve lives of seafarers

    pilots prevent containership grounding

    Pilots manage to prevent containership from grounding in Southampton waters

    nautical institute corroded extinguisher

    Lessons learned: Condemned material should be discarded

  • SEAFiT
    • All
    • Intellectual
    • Mental
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Spiritual
    How are you making decisions? The 6 human needs

    How are you making decisions? The 6 human needs

    how to fall asleep

    6 tips to help you fall asleep when you wake up at night

    psychotherapy

    Working in business? How psychotherapy can be a life-changing experience

    sexual health

    Sexual health important to overall wellbeing: Key considerations

  • Green
    • All
    • Arctic
    • Ballast
    • Emissions
    • Fuels
    • Green Shipping
    • Pollution
    • Ship Recycling
    • Technology
    Floating Wind Foundation Design for World’s Largest Turbines

    Floating wind foundation design for world’s largest turbines approved

    shipbreaking platform

    NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 443 ships and offshore units sold for scrapping in 2022

    Virginia Inland Port

    Virginia Inland Port operates on 100% green power

    uae france decarbonization hard to abate

    UAE, France collaborate to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries

  • Smart
    • All
    • Connectivity
    • Cyber Security
    • E-navigation
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Maritime Software
    • Smart
    2023 SMART4SEA Virtual Forum: Key technological achievements in the smart shipping era

    2023 SMART4SEA Virtual Forum: Key technological achievements in the smart shipping era

    australia satellite augmentation system

    New satellite-based augmentation system for Australia and New Zealand

    maersk digital twins

    Maersk: 4 ways digital twins will transform logistics

    maersk drone inventory

    Maersk: Drones to improve inventory management system

  • Risk
    • All
    • CIC
    • Detentions
    • Fines
    • PSC Focus
    • Vetting
    philippines 18 detained fuel theft

    Philippines: 18 from 3 ships detained for fuel theft

    black sea mou cic stcw

    Black Sea MoU: Preliminary results of CIC on STCW

    Keppel Offshore fines

    Keppel Offshore & Marine pays $65m in fines after corruption case

    fmc delay and disruption claims

    FMC: Increase in “Delay and Disruption” claims

  • Others
    • All
    • Diversity in shipping
    • Maritime Knowledge
    • Offshore
    • Ports
    • Reports
    • Shipping
    • Sustainability
    • Videos
    containers capacity

    Post-Chinese New Year capacity still very high

    Virginia Inland Port

    Virginia Inland Port operates on 100% green power

    abandonment of seafarers

    What can be done about the plight of abandoned seafarers

    bsm all aboard alliance

    BSM joins All-Aboard Alliance to enhance DEI efforts

  • Columns
    Maritime Just Transition Task Force: Engaging industry in social dialogue

    Maritime Just Transition Task Force: Engaging industry in social dialogue

    Career Paths: David Tournay, Maritime Skills Alliance

    Career Paths: Sinikka Hartonen, One Sea Association

    Career Paths: David Tournay, Maritime Skills Alliance

    Career Paths: David Tournay, Maritime Skills Alliance

    Trending Tags

    • Career Paths
    • Industry Voices
    • Maripedia
    • Maritime History
    • Resilience
    • Seafarers Stories
    • SeaSense
  • Events
  • Plus
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Safety
    • All
    • Accidents
    • Alerts
    • Loss Prevention
    • Maritime Health
    • Regulation
    • Safety
    • Seafarers
    • Security
    recaap isc armed robbery

    ReCAAP ISC: Three armed robbery incidents against ships in Asia

    iswan iranian seafarers union

    ISWAN, Iranian seafarers’ trade union to improve lives of seafarers

    pilots prevent containership grounding

    Pilots manage to prevent containership from grounding in Southampton waters

    nautical institute corroded extinguisher

    Lessons learned: Condemned material should be discarded

  • SEAFiT
    • All
    • Intellectual
    • Mental
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Spiritual
    How are you making decisions? The 6 human needs

    How are you making decisions? The 6 human needs

    how to fall asleep

    6 tips to help you fall asleep when you wake up at night

    psychotherapy

    Working in business? How psychotherapy can be a life-changing experience

    sexual health

    Sexual health important to overall wellbeing: Key considerations

  • Green
    • All
    • Arctic
    • Ballast
    • Emissions
    • Fuels
    • Green Shipping
    • Pollution
    • Ship Recycling
    • Technology
    Floating Wind Foundation Design for World’s Largest Turbines

    Floating wind foundation design for world’s largest turbines approved

    shipbreaking platform

    NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 443 ships and offshore units sold for scrapping in 2022

    Virginia Inland Port

    Virginia Inland Port operates on 100% green power

    uae france decarbonization hard to abate

    UAE, France collaborate to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries

  • Smart
    • All
    • Connectivity
    • Cyber Security
    • E-navigation
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Maritime Software
    • Smart
    2023 SMART4SEA Virtual Forum: Key technological achievements in the smart shipping era

    2023 SMART4SEA Virtual Forum: Key technological achievements in the smart shipping era

    australia satellite augmentation system

    New satellite-based augmentation system for Australia and New Zealand

    maersk digital twins

    Maersk: 4 ways digital twins will transform logistics

    maersk drone inventory

    Maersk: Drones to improve inventory management system

  • Risk
    • All
    • CIC
    • Detentions
    • Fines
    • PSC Focus
    • Vetting
    philippines 18 detained fuel theft

    Philippines: 18 from 3 ships detained for fuel theft

    black sea mou cic stcw

    Black Sea MoU: Preliminary results of CIC on STCW

    Keppel Offshore fines

    Keppel Offshore & Marine pays $65m in fines after corruption case

    fmc delay and disruption claims

    FMC: Increase in “Delay and Disruption” claims

  • Others
    • All
    • Diversity in shipping
    • Maritime Knowledge
    • Offshore
    • Ports
    • Reports
    • Shipping
    • Sustainability
    • Videos
    containers capacity

    Post-Chinese New Year capacity still very high

    Virginia Inland Port

    Virginia Inland Port operates on 100% green power

    abandonment of seafarers

    What can be done about the plight of abandoned seafarers

    bsm all aboard alliance

    BSM joins All-Aboard Alliance to enhance DEI efforts

  • Columns
    Maritime Just Transition Task Force: Engaging industry in social dialogue

    Maritime Just Transition Task Force: Engaging industry in social dialogue

    Career Paths: David Tournay, Maritime Skills Alliance

    Career Paths: Sinikka Hartonen, One Sea Association

    Career Paths: David Tournay, Maritime Skills Alliance

    Career Paths: David Tournay, Maritime Skills Alliance

    Trending Tags

    • Career Paths
    • Industry Voices
    • Maripedia
    • Maritime History
    • Resilience
    • Seafarers Stories
    • SeaSense
  • Events
  • Plus
No Result
View All Result
SAFETY4SEA

How RightShip supports good benchmarking

by Martin Crawford-Brunt
March 13, 2020
in Green Shipping, Opinions
port of seattle
FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin

During the 2020 SAFETY4SEA London Forum, Martin Crawford-Brunt, Chief Executive Officer, Rightship, focused on the mega trend of decarbonization and analyzed the importance of having an efficient fleet towards the ambitious target of reducing emissions significantly.

On a global basis, the debate on decarbonization has quite considerably change since people are now discussing about how to achieve it. As far it concerns our industry, the IMO and the whole maritime community are taking a leadership position saying that they want to do something about it.

I think it’s good that shipping is able to take a leadership position. We see that governments, politicians, leaders are beginning to respond to society and society responds to do more. This is driven by transparency of information which is leading to actions by different communities and I think shipping does need to play its part.

What does good look like?

RelatedNews

Virginia Inland Port operates on 100% green power

UAE, France collaborate to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries

In the 1780s if you were sailing on a clipper it was quite acceptable to lose couple of people on the voyage and that comes with the expression ‘your ships comes in, comes from’, so it was extremely profitable but extremely risky. Maybe one out of two voyages made it back.

If you look at it today, things have moved on – we don’t have that kind of expectation, the safety has moved on tremendously in the industry. However we should think; how is this going to look like in five years from now? Because society’s expectations, industry’s expectations and leaders’ expectations are continuously changing. So, we need to adapt and respond to any change.

I think it’s very important that we seek a win-win for business and the environment through a sustainable way to increase world trade and prosperity. An important part of this is being able to measure and able to benchmark because that allows us to know what we can do and change things.

The three blades of the propeller below demonstrate what actually drives us in RightShip, which are the social responsibility, the safety and the environmental sustainability. Namely, people are at the core of everything we do. From seafarer welfare to the relationships we build with industry and partners, the best outcomes for our people are essential. With regards to safety, the maritime industry faces safety challenges and we are constantly working to ensure ships are as safe as possible so that the cargo and crew are protected. In addition to these, we have an ambitious goal to create a zero-emission industry. Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection.

The propeller actually gives an outlook of what a balanced industry looks like; operations are managed in a sustainable way, where seafarers are cared for, the environment is considered and safety is given the right priority. That’s a good operator, that’s a good business, that’s sustainable.

On an ongoing basis in RightShip we’re working continuously on a triangle; we’re representing 137 charterers through a daily communication. We’re talking directly to the cargo interest, the ship operators, where we bring ports and terminals into the discussion as well; what we’re trying to do is to make a safe and successful voyage because that feeds everything else.

Touching a little bit on the GHG rating, to stress that is a relative measure of efficiency and not an absolute measure. We provide a comparison between vessels of similar size and type and we’re basing that on an international instrument. So, we’re not doing that regionally and it aims to reward those operators companies that are investing more in efficiency. We’ve seen that the interest has grown over the last years quite dramatically.

If we look at some sort of conversions or upgrades, we’ve actually seen quite a high number of these now, and actually fall in two categories:

  1. Machinery upgrades
  2. Propulsion upgrades

The orange bar is really where something has been done to change the propulsion upgrade and the dark one is about the machinery upgrade. We are snipping the top of that engine power curve, which does not affect the engine performance.

We’ve seen other having similar thoughts in terms of doing that, so this is just an example of how the industry is sort of responding and we’re constantly working with operators to evaluate that and the invitation is there to check your GHG rating which is freely available.

We are part of the getting to zero coalition and there is a lot of discussion about 2030-2050 and is extremely important. But, our suggestion is that there is a lot that can be done already.

With the existing fleet which has a significant impact on reducing emission and saving lives. We have many examples of this. One of them is Odfjell whose combined upgrades reduced fuel consumption and emissions by over 20%. More information about this is on our website.

Benchmarking carbon

All various different parties’ cargo interests are increasingly interested in benchmarking carbon and understanding the carbon footprint of scope three emissions. Carbon Accounting is measuring, monitoring, benchmarking and reporting an organisations GHG emissions in a defined reporting period.

We’ve seen a dramatic increase in interest from that and that’s not only been from charterers but also from shipowners and operators. When you’ve got a base score and you understand what your baseline is you can begin to measure against that.

We’ve got a number of enquiries including from ship operators who are trying to develop and we’re able to show them a pathway towards carbon reduction. We think that this is going to be increasingly important, going forward, being able to benchmark and track that.

Takeaways

#1 Decarbonization is not only about new tonnage

There are things that you can do today. While your focus is on decarbonization, we’re also looking for other emissions. But, right now let’s say that this is where the high focus is on. It’s possible to make a meaningful change today, by a variety of means in a way which doesn’t require necessarily the contraction of ships. I’ve been in the industry 25 years, and I can’t think of a harder time to decide and specify what to build. As well as a very challenging global environment. The technical is challenging concerning what you build, how you build it. The global environment is very challenging in terms of what the market will look like and the recent coronavirus along with the drop in freight rates is an example of that.

#2 Track and measure your emissions to reduce

#3 ESG and Society

In society, if you think about the way things are going, if you think about not only the younger generation – there are plenty of people that are beginning to say that we need to take the leadership position, we need to do something about this. And this, I think, combined with transparency is only going to increase, so I think that we would say that we need to set ourselves up as an industry, take a leadership position and adjust ourselves to the wind that we have.

#4 Collaboration to deliver real gains

RightShip is becoming more global as we have added resources in each office making the organization more accessible to ship operators and work with them and work within the triangle, so that ports, cargo interests and operators can get real benefit.

Above text is an edited version of Mr. Martin Crawford-Brunt’s presentation during the 2020 SAFETYSEA London Forum.

You may view his presentation herebelow

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SAFETY4SEA and are for information sharing and discussion purposes only.


About Martin Crawford-Brunt , CEO, RightShip

Martin Crawford-Brunt has always had a passion for the water. Growing up in South Africa, he spent his youth surfing and windsurfing. Adopting an early fascination with engineering, he sought to build a career that merged his dual interests.

He achieved this goal, gaining qualifications as a naval architect and mechanical engineer. From 1996 to 2005, Crawford-Brunt worked as a ship surveyor, equipment certifier and lead auditor in locations including the South and East African coasts, Singapore Rotterdam, Liverpool.

From 2005 to 2009, Crawford-Brunt held a management role with DNV New York, overseeing the maritime business and delivery on the eastern seaboard of the USA and Canada. In 2009, Crawford-Brunt became DNV’s maritime manager, UK and Ireland. In 2015, Crawford-Brunt rose to the position of regional manager, West Europe and Africa.

After taking the helm of RightShip in 2018, Crawford-Brunt has worked to influence environmental and social outcomes in order for charterers, ports, ship owners and seafarers to continue their important work. This is done by rewarding transparency and working with the experienced RightShip team to develop innovative digital products that offer customers comprehensive data sets and practical solutions.

Tags: decarbonizationLondonSAFETY4SEAsustainability
Martin Crawford-Brunt

Martin Crawford-Brunt

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recommended

How are you making decisions? The 6 human needs

How are you making decisions? The 6 human needs

February 1, 2023
2023 SMART4SEA Virtual Forum: Key technological achievements in the smart shipping era

2023 SMART4SEA Virtual Forum: Key technological achievements in the smart shipping era

February 1, 2023

SEAFiT Poll

What is the biggest obstacle for the social life onboard?

MARITIME EVENTS

Explore

  • Safety
  • Green
  • Smart
  • Risk
  • Others
  • Events
  • Plus

Useful Links

  • About
  • Disclaimer
  • Editorial Policies
  • Advertising
  • Contact

RISK4SEA Facts

Did you know that the Clean Inspection Rate is decreasing in Tokyo MoU? 17% less on the Clean Inspection Ratio for General Cargo in 2020 vs. 2019.

Learn more risk4sea.com

© 2021 SAFETY4SEA

No Result
View All Result
  • Safety
    • Alerts
    • Accidents
    • Loss Prevention
    • Maritime Health
    • Regulation
    • Safety
    • Seafarers
    • Security
  • Green
    • Arctic
    • Ballast
    • Emissions
    • Fuels
    • Green Shipping
    • Pollution
    • Ship Recycling
    • Technology
  • Smart
    • Connectivity
    • Cyber Security
    • E-navigation
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Maritime Software
    • Smart
  • Risk
    • CIC
    • Detentions
    • Fines
    • PSC Focus
    • Vetting
  • Others
    • Diversity in shipping
    • Maritime Knowledge
    • Offshore
    • Ports
    • Reports
    • Shipping
    • Sustainability
    • Videos
  • Columns
    • Opinions
    • Career Paths
    • Industry Voices
    • Maripedia
    • Maritime History
    • Seafarers Stories
    • SeaSense
  • Events
  • Plus

© 2021 SAFETY4SEA

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Disclaimer.