Tag: EU

EU's TEN-T will invest in a design and safety study to welcome ULCS in the Port of Dunkirk

Under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, large multinational companies have less than a year to complete an audit of their energy consumption in each EU country they operate business facilities. There’s a lack of consistency and clarity in many aspects of the Energy Efficiency Directive’s operation across EU member states Multinational companies can benefit from a database with reliable, up-to-date information on energy audit requirements, compliance options, exemptions, subsidies and fines for non-compliance in all member states The 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) establishes a set of binding measures to help the EU reach its 20% energy efficiency target by 2020. Under the Directive, all EU countries are required to use energy more efficiently at all stages of the energy chain from its production to its final consumption. New national measures have to ensure major energy savings for consumers and industry. Article 8 of the EED requires large companies with facilities in the 28 member states to make an audit of their energy consumption to help them identify ways to reduce it. An energy audit should be carried out at least every four years, with a first energy audit no later than December 5, 2015, unless ISO 50001 certified across ...

Eimskip short sea connection between Nova Scotia and New England increases shippers options for the USA and Europe

The European Commission has announced that it is stepping up its assistance to Italy.

EU will invest in a study on introducing an intelligent traffic management system in the port of Hamburg

The EU's TEN-T Programme will support with over €4.5 million a pilot test of an innovative exhaust gas cleaner on cargo ships navigating in the North and Baltic Sea. The new technology is expected to reduce considerably the environmental impact of ships, as well as to bring down the costs for using less polluting fuels. European regulation requires all cargo vessels travelling in European waters to cut down the emission of sulphur oxide (SO) from 2015 onwards, to decrease environmental pollution. Among the existing solutions scrubber, a system removing SO from exhaust gases with fresh water, is the most common technology used in this process. This pilot project will install and test the latest scrubber technology that uses sea water instead of fresh water in an open loop. The new cleaning system is expected to bring a number of economic and environmental benefits: ships will no longer need to carry supplies of fresh water, nor will they have to transport and use chemicals for water treatment, in order to reuse it. More space will be available for cargo. The latest scrubber technology will be tried out on three different types of cargo ships, which all together represent the most common ...

EC closes investigation in French tonnage tax system

All shipping companies calling at EU ports will, for the first time, have to measure and publicly report ships’ energy performance, including carbon emissions, under a law approved by the European Parliament’s environment committee and EU environment ministers. But the regulation, which still requires the support of the Parliament plenary, only monitors fuel consumption instead of directly reducing it, and only covers CO2 and not air pollutants like SO2 or NOx. Ship operators will be required to publicly report three metrics to measure the energy performance of ships: the theoretical energy performance of the ship known as the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI); its real-world fuel consumption; and its energy efficiency. The more cargo a ship can carry using the same amount of fuel, the more efficient and cheaper it is to run.. T&E says that while the law is weak, the publication of ships’ real energy efficiency will provide shipping users with transparent data to identify the most efficient ships and practices, and hopefully trigger a cycle of increased competition among operators. The environment committee vote and the Council of Ministers’ decision comes as global air pollution from shipping in ports is projected to quadruple by 2050 from current ...

ESPO held an internal seminar on infrastructure financing on 30 January

e-Compliance, a partly EU funded research project on maritime regulations, is delighted to announce the delivery of its Maritime Thesaurus and Ontology