Diana Shipping, Bureau Veritas Team Up to Boost Energy Performance of Three Vessels

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Friday June 10, 2016

Diana Shipping Services S.A. (Diana Shipping) has enlisted the help of Bureau Veritas S.A. (BV) in a recent energy-saving assessment of three of the company's capesize bulk carriers, Green4Sea reports.

The assessment process is said to have utlised BV's SEECAT energy simulation software, which generated a model of vessel energy flow, including modules for all energy consumers including the main engine, auxiliary engines, and boiler, as well as data for a power curve that is based on data from sea trials records.

Several operational scenarios are said to have been analysed during the process, including a comparison of bunker consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur oxide (SOx), and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission outputs across different voyages at design speed or slow steaming.

As a result, Diana Shipping now has access the tool that is said to assess the effectiveness of actions taken in order to boost energy efficiency in the vessels' operation.

Following the assessment, BV is reported to have assigned an additional notation of SEEMP to the three vessels, indicating that the vessels' Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan has been reviewed by BV for compliance with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Resolution MEPC.213(63)

Further, Diana Shipping is said to have been provided a software tool for calculating and recording an Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI), which is noted to have been developed by BV's Piraeus Tecnitas team.

Last year, DNV GL said a Energy Management Study showed that, despite energy saving being considered a high priority within most of the shipping companies questioned during the study, most of their savings targets are not ambitious enough.