A new service from Lloyds Register of Shipping has been developed to help operators demonstrate enhanced environmental performance to cargo owners and other stakeholders.
The new verification service is offered to shipowners and operators wishing to demonstrate their success in reducing the environmental impact of their activities beyond the requirements of classification or statutory rules and regulations. The service is said to be cost effective and can be delivered with minimal interruption to ship operations.
The verification service is approved by the Clean Shipping Project, the organisation that developed the clean shipping index. More than 1,000 ships have been entered into the clean shipping index database.
The index is a tool that takes into account significant environmental impacts of shipping, such as emissions to air and water, use of chemicals, effects of antifouling etc. It ranks ships or shipping companies in a database according to the aspects that are most relevant to the user. So, a cargo owner seeking shipping companies with high environmental performance can focus and assess the relevant criteria, identifying data such as carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, or other issues such as use of biodegradable oils.
Lloyds Register has been involved with the project for several years, trying to ensure that it provides a reasonable representation of environmental performance. LR developed a trial verification process and tested it by delivering trial verification of reported index scores with the support of Scandinavian ship operators.
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