Tag: Clean Shipping Index

GL certifies LNG-fuelled tanker Bit Viking as clean Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has undertaken its first Clean Shipping Index (CSI) verification for the product tanker Bit Viking. GL issued the vessel with a Statement of Compliance confirming that the data submitted by owner Tarbit Shipping meets the requirements of the Index, an essential step for ensuring the usefulness and transparency of the data provided for the new project.GL was authorised to perform verification checks for the CSI in March and shortly thereafter undertook the verification of the Bit Viking. "The CSI is an important step in the growing process whereby the shipping industry moves to reduce its impact on the environment. A database built on data that is voluntarily supplied but independently and rigorously checked will build confidence in the Index in both shipping companies and their clients. The Index is generating a great deal of interest within the industry and we have already had a number of additional inquiries from owners and operators," said Markus Weber, GL's Global Head of Greenhouse Gas Services.The Bit Viking, a 25,000 dwt product tanker, is the world's first vessel in service whose main machinery has been converted to burn LNG as fuel and also ...

The Clean Shipping Index is an online tool The Korean Register of Shipping (KR) - an IACS member classification society - has become the first Asian organisation to be accredited as a verification body by the Clean Shipping Index.The Clean Shipping Index is an online tool enabling cargo owners to make informed, sustainable choices when selecting a shipping company. Shipowners submit environmental data enabling shippers to compare the environmental performance of fleets and individual ships. As a leading class society, KR has been certified by the Clean Shipping Index as fit to verify the environmental data submitted by shipowners and operators including greenhouse gases, nitrogen, sulphur and other potential pollutants.Commenting on the certification, KR Chairman and CEO, Dr Oh Kong-gyun said: "Increasingly, cargo owners are seeking to ensure that all of their operations are environmentally friendly - and that includes their supply chains. We are heavily involved in many aspects of green shipping including the provision of greenhouse gas verification services and the Clean Cargo Working Group. Caring for the environment is at the top of our corporate agenda and I am delighted that we now able to take a positive role in this valuable and very worthwhile environmental tool ...

Verification to ships according to the Clean Shipping Index requirement RINA, the global classification society, has been approved by Sweden's Clean Shipping Project, to perform verification to ships and as per the Clean Shipping Index requirement.The Clean Shipping Index (CSI) is backed by many of Sweden's largest cargo shippers and the EU. The CSI takes a holistic approach to environmental issuesaffecting shipping including air and water emissions and the use of chemicals and antifouling. It ranks vessels and shipping companies according to performance under each criteria.Pino Spadafora, RINA group area manager for the Baltic, Benelux and Scandinavia, said: "This recognition by the CSI is important for two reasons. It recognises RINA's commitment to - and expertise in - environmental assessment, and it is another part of our expansion in this region."Danish shipowner, Dannebrog Rederi, has recently taken advantage of RINA's expertise by moving two chemical tankers to RINA class - the society has classed several of its dry cargo vessels in the past.In recent months, RINA has also been recognised by the Norwegian Maritime Directorate as able to carry out statutory certification services on its behalf and bythe Polish and Faroe Islands' administrations for similar duties.This latestaudit approvalin Sweden sees ...

The Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to evaluate the environmental performance Maersk Line is the first verified shipping company in the Clean Shipping Index. The Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to evaluate the environmental performance of shipping companies. The Clean Shipping Index has now a global reach with 30 large international cargo owners - the Clean Shipping Network - and around 45 world wide shipping companies have submitted environmental performance data regarding their vessels to the Index.The verification of Maersk data as a shipping company has been a process with random inspections of vessels all over the world. This has been done by Lloyds Register in London which is one of so far three classification societies accredited to make verification according to the Clean Shipping Index. - It is an absolute need to have verified environmental data in a selection process of carriers for our products", says Stefan Bodelind, Global Sourcing Manager Sea Containers at AkzoNobel, the large Dutch paint and chemical manufacturer and also a member of the Clean Shipping Network. "If we fully can trust the information it is easier to take serious environmental decisions with sometimes large economical consequences".Source: ...