Tag: Seas at Risk

This proposal highlights the importance of applying the precautionary principle to the emerging deep-sea mining sector. It calls on the Commission and EU Member States to support an international moratorium on commercial deep-sea mining exploitation licences.

NGOs Seas At Risk and Transport & Environment made an official statement regarding Paris climate target as new secretary-general of IMO Kitack Lim met with EU Environment and Transport Commissioners

  As of January 1st 2013, all new ships have to meet a minimum value for their Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI). The EEDI value ships have to meet is a function of ship type and size of the ship. It is based on an empirical regression line of the efficiency of ships built between 1999 and 2009 which is called the reference line. The reference lines were calculated using publicly available data to construct a simplified version of the EEDI called the Estimated Index Value (EIV). There is little publicly available information on how the design efficiency of ships that have entered the fleet since 2009 has developed. The IMO has published the EEDI of a limited number of ships launched since 2012, but the sample of ships is small and the time period limited. The published data show clearly, however, that EIVs and EEDIs of ships are well correlated. The report analyses the EIV of over 9,000 new ships that have entered the fleet between January 2009 and July 2014. Their design efficiency has improved considerably between 2009 and 2014. In 2013 and 2014, approximately 90% of new container ships had EIVs below the reference line. The detailed ...

  New ships built in 2013 were on average 10% less fuel efficient than those built in 1990, according to a new study commissioned by Seas At Risk and Transport and Environment. The study shows that container ships built 30 years ago already, on average, beat the so-called ‘Energy Efficiency Design Index’ standard that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has set for new ships built in 2020. The standard is up for review next month. This first ever study of the historical development of the design efficiency of new ships, commissioned by Seas At Risk and Transport & Environment, finds that bulk carriers, tankers, and container ships built in 2013 were on average 12, 8 and 8% less fuel efficient than those built in 1990, a quarter of a century ago. The findings contradict claims that shipping has been constantly improving its environmental performance. They also demonstrate that market forces by themselves don’t result in more fuel efficient ships being built. Oil prices in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the time when new ships were historically most fuel efficient, were around a quarter of the levels seen in the 2008-2013 period (ca $25 vs $100 per barrel, in today’s ...

Transport & Environment, Seas at Risk and Carbon War Room are urging the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) not to withhold data on ship efficiency and fuel consumption. The call for action follows moves by some industry groups to undermine initiatives at the IMO and EU level that would make efficiency performance publicly available and require ships to report and publicise their energy efficiency data. In submissions to the IMO’s environment committee (MEPC), Transport & Environment (T&E) and Seas at Risk (SAR) – both members of the Clean Shipping Coalition – have drawn on research by the University of Gothenburg which states that transparency is essential if the industry is to reduce its GHG emissions and develop a sustainable low-carbon future. The study prepared by Jessica Coria, associate professor at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, states that: “Social and market pressure resulting from information disclosure can generate strong incentives for pollution control in a way that traditional enforcement tools may not be able to achieve.” One of the principle barriers to the sector reducing its emissions is the lack of publicly available data on the energy performance of individual ships. The IMO’s MEPC plans to restrict access to the energy ...