DNV has launched the EEXI Calculator – a digital device to help clients in making certain their compliance with the upcoming Power Effectivity Current Ship Index (EEXI). The regulation is predicted to be adopted at this week’s 76th assembly of the Marine Setting Safety Committee (MEPC 76). In that case, it could take impact in January 2023.
The EEXI regulation is a medium-term part of the Worldwide Maritime Group’s (IMO) roadmap in direction of lowering world shipping’s carbon depth by 40 per cent over the following decade, utilizing 2008 as a baseline. The goal of the EEXI is to evaluate the power effectivity of current ships, focusing solely on their design. It determines the standardized CO2 emissions associated to a vessel’s put in engine energy, transport capability, velocity, and diploma of power effectivity. The regulation shall be relevant for all cargo, ro-pax and cruise vessels above 400 GT, relying on their propulsion sort and whether or not they commerce internationally. DNV estimates that at present as much as 30,000 vessels have to take motion to adjust to the upcoming EEXI regulation.
“The EEXI is placing an excessive amount of stress on ship house owners to take quick motion with a view to analyse the power effectivity of their fleet and make any mandatory changes to make sure compliance,“ mentioned Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV Maritime. “At DNV, we perceive the difficulties the trade faces in assembly this regulatory deadline. For this reason we now have tailor-made our new EEXI Calculator to fulfill this want.”
Power Effectivity Current Ship Index (EEXI) is predicted to take impact in 2023. DNV has launched the EEXI Calculator to help clients in making certain their compliance.
To assist clients guarantee they’re ready for EEXI compliance, DNV has developed two pathways.
The EEXI Calculator is function made for top quantity ship segments equivalent to tankers, bulkers and containers. Clients can entry this newly launched device through the Veracity portal below ‘Fleet Standing’. The calculator can produce an EEXI calculation and the technical file based mostly on the info uploaded by the client.
For extra complicated instances, and when the client needs to avoid wasting effort and time, DNV’s advisory specialists can work with clients to map out a pathway to compliance, establish the right parameters for the calculation, and help in making ready the required documentation.
“These two pathways are designed to assist everybody deal with their EEXI challenges in time to succeed in compliance,” mentioned Fabian Kock, Head of Part Environmental Certification, DNV Maritime. “For corporations with a youthful fleet, this may increasingly not require main changes, they’ll simply entry and put together the required documentation by way of our EEXI calculator. And for many who want extra help, there’s the chance to faucet into DNV’s intensive experience as they put together to make extra concerned choices round how their vessels can meet the regulatory necessities and safe EEXI compliance when the regulation comes into pressure.”
The EEXI Calculator is launched on 17 June 2021.
Supply: DNV
