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Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Successfully Completes Fleet Compliance Evaluation for the .
Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp.February 9, 2021 GMT
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (“Seanergy” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SHIP) announced today that it has successfully completed the evaluation of the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (“EEXI”) of its Capesize vessels.
IMO is targeting a 50% reduction in Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) emissions from international shipping by 2050, compared to the 2008 levels. This will be achieved by implementing short-term, mid-term and long-term measures. As part of the short-term measures, IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (“MEPC”) 75 approved in November 2020 amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, introducing an Energy Efficiency Design Index for existing vessels.
Jotun makes a case for advanced antifouling solutions
Sandefjord, Norway, February 1, 2021 Today’s shipowners face a simultaneous battle on two fronts, states leading paint and coatings manufacturer Jotun. A growing pressure to comply with ever more stringent environmental regulations is matched by a need to control costs, and enhance efficiency, in an increasingly competitive and unpredictable marketplace. Confronted with such grave challenges, owners have an opportunity, Jotun says, to pick “the low hanging fruit” of advanced antifouling solutions, simplifying compliance while also achieving significant bottom-line benefits. Environmental ambition The IMO is expected to redouble its environmental efforts, and legislative focus, over the coming years as it aims to fulfil an ambition of reducing shipping’s carbon footprint by 50% by 2050 (with full decarbonisation by 2100). MEPC 75 demonstrated that commitment, with the introduction of two new quantitative
EEDI does it
In a 2018 paper, decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift, a team of researchers led by EPP Ph.D. student Lynn Kaack recommended improving the efficiency of individual vehicles, measured in grams of CO2 per tonne-km. The most cost-effective way to do this, Kaack et al determined, is “Shifting as much freight as possible from road transportation to rail and water is one of the most important means for decarbonizing the freight sector.”
Shipping carries more than 90% of world trade and has continued to do so during the covid pandemic, yet is still far and away the least polluting of the world’s transport industries. Even in a world where containers are being carried across multiple landmasses over the course of a single truck journey, shipping’s exemption from the Paris climate accord has not prevented the industry from taking action. Despite its image problem in the mainstream press, shipping is arguably going beyond the call of du