ICS Slams Lobby Group’s Claims on Ship Efficiency Decline

The International Chamber of Shipping is responding to current claims by the European environmental foyer group Transport & Environment (T&E) that new ships constructed at present are much less CO2 environment friendly than these constructed over 20 years in the past.

The ICS has dismissed the group’s claims, that are primarily based on a examine by CE Delft, as “fanciful”.

T&E argues that the examine exhibits that the effectivity of recent ships inbuilt 2013 really deteriorated since 1990 by 10% on common.

The examine, titled Historical Trends in Ship Design Efficiency, analyzed the event of the design effectivity of ships – measured by effectivity indicator values (EIVs) – constructed over the past 50 years. The EIV is a simplified type of EEDI, or Energy Efficiency Design Index, which was entered into pressure in January 2013 as a part of the IMO necessary package deal of CO2 discount measures (amendments to MARPOL Annex VI).

“T&E bases its claims on a report it has commissioned from the respected consultancy CE Delft, but it has used the findings very selectively. Moreover, the actual data from which the report’s analysis is derived finishes before the worldwide implementation of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI),” the ICS stated in its response.

The assertion continued:

“The T&E assertion seems to confuse general design effectivity with an approximate ‘estimate of fuel efficiency’ primarily based on generic knowledge. Modern ships are designed for optimum effectivity which requires far much less gasoline to be consumed than beforehand. Largely because of gasoline environment friendly operations, the newest IMO Green House Gas Study, revealed in 2014, exhibits that worldwide transport decreased its complete CO2 emissions by greater than 10% between 2007 and 2012, at a time when demand for maritime transport continued to extend.

“It is just not useful for T&E to twist the outcomes of the CE Delft examine to suggest that the IMO EEDI, developed by the mixed technical experience of all of the world’s maritime nations, is in some way insufficient. Modern ships, constructed in keeping with the EEDI targets which got here into impact in January 2015, are required to be designed to be not less than 10% extra environment friendly (in comparison with the agreed IMO reference line), whereas ships constructed after 2030 shall be 30% extra environment friendly.

“Combined with continuously improving operational fuel efficiency measures, supported by the mandatory use of Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plans and new technology, the actual CO2 reductions achieved will be even greater. This is something on which the shipping industry and its regulator, IMO, should be congratulated rather than criticised.”