Smarter steaming ahead
Briefing on a report by CE Delft studying the impacts of vessel speed on emissions, technical constraints and other experiences with regard to slow steaming and current speed regulations.
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Regulated Slow Steaming in Maritime Transport: An Assessment of Options, Costs and Benefits
This report studies the impacts of vessel speed on emissions, technical constraints and other experiences with regard to slow steaming and current speed regulations. Moreover, it analyses the legal feasibility of speed limits and feasibility of implementation, possible policy designs and the associated social costs and benefits of speed limits.
New study shows huge environmental & economic benefits of slowing down shipping
Speed controls on shipping could save billions in lower ship fuel bills, cut air pollution and enable the shipping industry to play a full part in tackling climate change according to a new report.
Is shipping heading for the ETS?
The Commission has suggested four ways of tackling greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, and has opened a public consultation. The consultation follows the failure of the IMO to agree measures for ships already in operation by the EU's 31-December deadline.
IMO’s climate efforts could save ship operators $50bn a year
The IMO’s mandatory efficiency measures for ships, agreed in July, could save ship operators $50 billion a year by 2020.
Progress at Durban but no action for nine years
The ‘Durban Platform’ may become as commonly known as the Kyoto Protocol, following a loose agreement at this month’s Durban climate change summit on a plan to work towards a global climate strategy. The plan is to agree the strategy by 2015 and for it to start in 2020.
Cleaning up shipping
A plan to make the shipping industry more sustainable has been supported by 17 leading companies with a combined market value of $500 billion.
Ship speed limits are legal and save fuel
Requiring ships to slow down is an environmentally beneficial option that is both legal and does not damage ships. These were just some of the findings to emerge from a seminar earlier this month organised by T&E and another NGO, Seas at Risk.
Cleaner ship fuels – it’s about time!
Opinion
By Kerstin Meyer - T&E senior campaigner
It seemed the wrong way round when the Commission came under heavy lobby-fire earlier this year over the issue of new sulphur limits for marine fuel. Typically when it comes to international areas like shipping, industry lobbyists always call for an international agreement instead of European legislation. Since these international bodies tend to work extremely slowly that usually means nothing really happens for the next 10 or 20 years, but in this case that was not true. In 2008 the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) agreed some fairly substantial air pollution rules. And now the shipping industry is calling on European policy-makers to ignore the agreement and set their own – weaker – standards.
Seminar on slow steaming and speed limits for shipping
When?
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 09:30 to 16:30
Where?
EUROCITIES
Square de Meeûs 1
B-1000 Brussels
BelgiumSetting mandatory global and regional speed limits for shipping is legally and technically feasible and does not require major administrative and economic burdens for enforcement. Reduced speed results in dramatic reductions in ship emissions - CO2, air pollution and particulates - and does not pose technical, operational or safety dangers. These were the main conclusions of a 4 October seminar on ship speed limits organised in Brussels by Transport & Environment and Seas at Risk.