At the start of this year, the European Union made it mandatory for all ships above 5,000gt to have an emissions-monitoring plan(EU-MRV) in place before calling at ports on the continent.
ABS has already completed assessment on EU-MRV monitoring plans for nearly 4,000 of those ships.
From next year (January 1, 2019), a similar emissions-monitoring regime will be mandated globally under the IMO’s Data Collection System (IMO-DCS) and owners will need to have a documented plan in place to monitor CO2 emissions.
‘So whether you’re a cruise ship operator calling at some of Europe’s most historic ports, or offering cruise services between Miami and the Caribbean and points south, you’ll need an approved monitoring plan in place for your entire fleet within a year,’ Schwarz told Seatrade Cruise News.
For owners and operators looking to use their current EU-MRV plan to meet the additional requirements of the IMO-DCS, ABS has a simple template designed specifically to help bridge the gaps, he continued.
IMO DCS regulations require companies to update their existing Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) to document the methodology that will be used to collect the required data and the processes that will be used to report the data to the ship's Administration. Data that must be collected and reported annually includes fuel consumption, hours underway and distance travelled.
For those who have an existing EU MRV plan in place, necessary data is likely already collected for EU compliance.
‘If you’re starting from scratch, without an EU-MRV plan in place, ABS has another template to help you modify and populate existing Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plans, as mandated by the IMO-DCS, said Schwarz who will at ABS's booth number L3-354 during Seatrade Cruise Global taking place in Fort Lauderdale, March 5-8, 2018.
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