Experts from the five Maritime Technology Cooperation Centres (MTCCs) in the GMN network met for their second annual meeting, on 22-26 October, in London, UK, to promote ship energy-efficiency measures and technology transfer.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of IMO’s MEPC 73 meeting to implement ship energy-efficiency measures and advance technology transfer. This attempt is a part of the global network for energy-efficient shipping under the GMN project, funded by the European Union and run by IMO.
The technical training for MTCC crew, which was about energy efficiency in ship design and operations on how to manage the port energy and how to adapt to climate changes, was conducted by a technology providers along with presentations on using wind power, electric and digital solutions and a future vision on how ports will look.
The network of five MTCCS – in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific – is being funded to present lessons learned from executing a voluntary pilot data-collection and reporting systems and to provide leadership in highlighting the ships’s energy-efficiency technologies and operations, and the reduction of harmful emissions from ships.
The meeting provided an opportunity for MTCC heads to think of priorities for 2020 and to meet with the project’s Global Stakeholders Committee, which combines technical experts to share ideas and accomplish long-term strategic guidance.
Meanwhile, Member States meeting in the MEPC made sure their commitment and support to potential building projects like the GMN.
Finally, the MEPC agreed in priority to think of, at its next meeting, sustainable funding techniques for the future, including the possible achievement of a voluntary multi-donor trust fund.
