Green Marine Ship Owners Claim Average of 1.4% Annual Reduction in GHG Intensity

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Wednesday December 13, 2017

Green Marine says that its first carbon dioxide equivalent emissions data gathering and analysis has shown that ship owners participating in the Green Marine environmental certification program have achieved an average annual reduction in GHG intensity of 1.4 percent.

"This initiative demonstrates how Green Marine participants willingly go beyond regulatory compliance by all readily providing this data before it is required by any binding authority," said David Bolduc, Green Marine's executive director.

"The results clearly illustrate that ship owners are improving their energy efficiency in keeping with Green Marine's core tenet of continual environmental improvement."

Ship owners who provided data for the voluntary initiative are noted to represent more than 250 vessels across various types.

Participants provided emissions data from a baseline year and from 2016, calculating their average GHG emissions for a period varying from two to eight years.

"It is the first time this kind of reporting exercise has been done by such a diversified group of ship owners," said Dr. Eleanor Kirtley, Green Marine's West Coast program manager.

"We decided to aggregate the results by percentage of reduction since it was the only common metric for every type of ship owner."

Methods to used by Green Marine ship owners to glean such emission reductions are noted to include hull cleaning and propeller polishing, weather routing, loading for trim optimisation, voluntary speed reductions, and preventive engine maintenance.