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Energy efficiency is the big deal these days. If we use less energy, not only we save the energy but we contribute towards lesser pollution too.
After all, the greenest energy is the energy you do not have to produce.
As a responsible citizen of this earth, if I wish to use lesser energy than I am using now there are few things I can do.
- I can run my car to lesser miles than I ran last month so that I burn less fuel. This can be by using a bicycle for the shorter distance or using shorter routes for the travel
- I can buy a car which has better mileage than my present car. So even after running the same distance, I have now used less fuel than the last month.
Ship energy efficiency is not much different than this.
For a very long time, ship energy efficiency was voluntary and ship owners were expected to understand their responsibility towards energy efficiency.
However, IMO felt a need to make the concept of “energy efficiency” as mandatory and thus the Annex VI of the MARPOL was amended to include chapter IV for ship energy efficiency.
In this post, we will discuss everything we need to know about the requirements of the ship energy efficiency.
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About Capt Rajeev Jassal
Capt. Rajeev Jassal has sailed for over 24 years mainly on crude oil, product and chemical tankers. He holds MBA in shipping & Logistics degree from London. He has done extensive research on quantitatively measuring Safety culture onboard and safety climate ashore which he believes is the most important element for safer shipping.
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