Tag: GREEN4SEA

Dimitris Heliotis, MARTECMA, explains what the GREEN4SEA Excellence Award means for the Association and advises ship owners to think carefully before making their choice for compliance with latest environmental rules, especially those working mainly in ECAs.

Capt. Dimitrios Mattheou, Chairman, Green Award Foundation, discusses about the core priorities in Green Award’s agenda for tackling the latest environmental challenges and calls for all industry stakeholders to continue to adopt “Greener” practices aiming for a sustainable future of shipping. Capt. Mattheou says that the success of the initiative could be attributed to its support for effective collaboration towards industry stakeholders.

Steve Esau, General Manager, SEA\LNG, explains what the GREEN4SEA Initiative Award means for the coalition. The SEA\LNG coalition was the winner of the award this year for its efforts to facilitate the widespread use of LNG as a marine fuel for environmental compliance. The coalition promotes this alternative fuel as the best option for 'cleaner shipping'.

Steve Esau, General Manager, SEA\LNG, explains what the GREEN4SEA Initiative Award means for the coalition. The SEA\LNG coalition was the winner of the award this year for its efforts to facilitate the widespread use of LNG as a marine fuel for environmental compliance. The coalition promotes this alternative fuel as the best option for 'cleaner shipping'.

Nikolas Theodorou, Verifavia Shipping (Hellas) reminds that the Monitoring Plan is a mandatory requirement according to Article 6 of the EU MRV Regulation, and that it must be submitted to an independent accredited verifier before 31st August 2017 for assessment. The plan which compiles all the information on how the ship’s MRV system works, must be complete, accurate, relevant, and compliant.

Steve Esau, General Manager for the multi-sector industry coalition SEA\LNG explains that the coalition was created with the aim to accelerate the widespread adoption of LNG as a marine fuel. The coalition looks to highlight the viability and demand for LNG across the maritime value chain, thereby creating the necessary confidence between each link. SEA\LNG focuses on addressing the commercial barriers to LNG, particularly in the deep-sea shipping segment.

John Kokarakis, Bureau Veritas, notes that the IMO system is simpler and efforts are performed to get some elements from the EU/MRV in order to reach harmonization. For example, issues like uncertainty of monitoring methods are not mentioned. The IMO system does not include publication of fuel consumption data under the name of ship and its publication will be anonymous whereas the EU/MRV is based on publication under the ship name.

Kostas Vlachos, CMM, focuses on the preparation of the Monitoring Plan and suggests that a Risk based approach is certainly required. He further presents the required Data Flow Activities for the control of data and referred to issues concerning the Quality assurance and Reliability of IT along with the required Internal Reviews and Validation of data.

Panayiotis Mitrou, Lloyd’s Register, says that if shipping has a higher cost of decarbonisation than other sectors of the economy, it may be possible to offset some of shipping’s CO2 emissions by purchasing offsets from other sectors. He concludes that futureproofing cannot be guaranteed, however, decabornisation is the mother of all challenges.

Franco Porcellacchia describes Carnival’s strategy in terms of fuel consumption, LNG and scrubbers. Mr. Porcellacchia further addresses why the LNG is the best way to comply with environmental regulations and which are the challenges when compared to HFO & EGCS.