Tag: Verifavia

Julien Dufour, CEO, Verifavia Shipping gives an overview of the ESSF 6th Plenary Meeting which was held in Brussels on 28th June 2016 and discussed the way forward with regards to the delegated and implementing acts pursuant to the Regulation 2015/757 'EU MRV among other issues.

At the 38th Propulsion & Emissions Conference held on 11-12 May in Hamburg, Julien Dufour, CEO, Verifavia Shipping and Poul Woodall, Director, Environment & Sustainability, DFDS presented a paper on the challenges and readiness of Shipping MRV for shipowners and operators.

Verifavia Shipping will organise ‘free-to-attend’ masterclasses at Posidonia in Athens from 6-10 June 2016 to demystify the legislation and support ship owners and operators in working towards compliance

Andrea Carli, Air Life SRL gave a presentation on ‘’Using Selective Catalytic Reduction to comply with NOX Tier III’’ at the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. He reminded that for areas designated as NOx Emission Control Areas, new ships will need to meet the standards of Tier III, a reduction of 80% compared to Tier I standards. IMO MARPOL Annex VI imposes mandatory standards for the emissions of new build engines, according to which Tiers I, II, III were set.

George Dimopoulos, DNV GL Maritime presented ways for ‘’Developing & Operating Better LNG Ships’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. He stated that future and emerging trades, markets, export facilities as well as propulsion technologies call for innovation in LNG carrier ship design. He presented the results of the LNGreen joint development project between DNVGL, Gaslog, GTT and Hyundai Heavy Industries that developed an LNG carrier concept with significantly improved efficiency by more than 8%, within the bounds of today’s technology, ready to be ordered and built.

Dimitrios V. Lyridis, NTUA analyzed the issue of ‘’Ships and Ports Electrification’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. He said that both EU and IMO policy in maritime transportation aim at more efficient use of resources, i.e. the development and/or exploitation of energy sources in a way that the environmental impact is minimized or completely eliminated. .

Sotiris Raptis, Transport & Environment, presented the ‘’EU & IMO post-MRV developments’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. He said that although shipping has escaped an explicit reference, the Paris Agreement creates a whole new political environment for the sector. All countries will contribute to an ambitious long-term goal to pursue efforts to limit a temperature increase well below 2°C. The scale of the discrepancy between targets commensurate with global climate change objectives and the industry’s projected emissions scenarios is so large, that shipping urgently requires a CO2 target.

Anastasia Kouvertari, Hellenic Lloyd’s S.A gave a presentation on ‘’Understanding MRV’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. She addressed the main axes of the EU Regulation as well as the areas that remain to be clarified. She discussed both the monitoring and the verification aspect within a pragmatic and practical context that builds upon existing understanding of the shipping industry in the lowest administrative way possible.

Konstantinos Kanellakis, Schneider Electric gave a presentation on ‘’Smart panels and energy audits: Optimize the electrical consumption of a vessel’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference Awards, in which he covered the energy savings potential for a vessel’s electrical consumption. He referred to the technological tools available today to monitor, analyse data and create reports to help with decision-making on energy efficiency actions.

Serafeim Katsikas, LAROS explained “The key role of Information Intelligence towards Greener Vessels Operation’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. He referred to the Green Vessel Operation which is a concept that includes the implementation of more environmental friendly technologies and the optimization of the vessel efficiency, maintenance and operation.