Tag: reducing shipping emissions

Carnival Corporation released its eighth annual sustainability report, announcing that in 2017 it achieved its 25% carbon reduction goal three years ahead of schedule and is on track with its nine other 2020 sustainability goals. The company continues its sustainability journey, using the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

As the shipping industry is trying to find ways to reduce emissions, the European Union and IMO have announced regulations which require from operators to collect  and report their ships' fuel consumption. To assist in this, DNV GL released a combined reporting and verification online tool.

In his address to the Finnish Climate Summit in Helsinki in mid-June, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called on the Arctic Council to have 'a first ever Arctic Summit' in order to tackle black carbon emissions in the polar region, noting that there is no time to wait on climate change.

In an exclusive interview with SAFETY4SEA, Mr. Nick Brown, Communications Director at Bureau Veritas, invites industry to continue bridging the gender gap and supporting effective leadership by setting clear targets and avoiding micro-managing. Mr. Brown also notes that the recent IMO strategy for emissions reduction is currently the biggest challenge.

The MethaShip project consortium presented its results in Hamburg. This project aimed to examine methanol as fuel for cruise ships and RoPax ferries. Namely, it concluded that methanol can indeed be used as a marine fuel and will actually be one with a future.

Stephanie Lavelle, Maritime Manager, Chelsea Technologies Group, shares her thoughts on the upcoming 2020 sulphur cap. Ms. Lavelle says that despite the fact the shipping industry players appear to have agreed to invest in new technologies and fuels to meet this regulation, the market still seems uncertain regarding the effectiveness of the sulphur cap.

Hong Kong published the Air Pollution Control (Fuel for Vessels) Regulation, which requires all vessels to use compliant fuel within the waters of Hong Kong to reduce their emissions and improve air quality. If approved by the Council, the Regulation will take effect on 1 January 2019.

The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel informed that it will have an LNG bunker study draft ready until Gastech 2018, in September. Namely, Life Cycle Analysis project aims to analyze GHG emission of LNG systems, which incorporate solutions that comply with the upcoming 2020 sulphur cap.

Even if carbon emissions were to be completely eliminated tomorrow, human-driven climate change wound still take place for a long time. By the end of this century, Earth's temperature will be almost 3 degrees Fahrenheit higher than now, with less water resources and more droughts expected.

A new report aiming to verify the effect of the Automatic Mooring System on the emissions in the surroundings of the installations devoted to Ro-Ro/Pax vessel traffic, reveals that, in the RoRo/Pax terminals in which the AMS is operating, brings a reduction in CO2 emissions of 97%.