BIMCO driving –

Maritime Environmental & Efficiency Management

BIMCO seminar – in association with Fathom2 June 2015 2015, Nor Shipping, Norway

SOLAS requirements

• The ISM Code became mandatory in 1998

• Require an Safety Management System (SMS) established by the Company Commitment from top management

Top tier ”Policy Manual”

”Procedures Manual” formal and emergency operations

Procedures for internal and external audits

Identification of NC and follow-up on CA

Management reviews

• Often mistaken to cover Safety only – and not environmental matters as well

The Guide – Part I, II and III

• A framework that allows a company to combine common environmental requirements

• A practical and guided approach that gives shipping companies the relevant knowledge and tools to implement a comprehensive management system

• Allow companies to more easily see opportunities for improvements and cost savings and implement these on an incremental basis

International requirements

• One of the significant challenges for ships, their owners, charterers and managers is how to reduce the risk of non-compliance with regulatory requirements and associated enforcement actions

• Regulatory compliance check done by the Port State Control

• IMO Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP), mandatory for all ships under MARPOL Annex VI

Tool to assist companies in management of energy efficiency of ships

United States – ECPEnvironmental Compliance Plan

• Established to ensure responsibilities for implementation and compliance with regulations are clear and unambiguous

• Often used in shore based industries

• Sometimes mandated by court Senior Management Oversight

Defined Shipboard Responsibilities

Auditing processes

Technical requirements

Budgets

Procedures for NC determinations and CA

ISO Standards

ISO 14001 on Environmental Management System (EMS)

Used by some shipping companies to document their environmental performance

Based on “Plan-Do-Check-Act”

Continuous feedback loop to improve performance

ISO 50001 on Energy Management Still early days in the shipping industry to

certify management of energy onboard ships

2015 Publication

• The Guide to Maritime Environmental and Efficiency Management

Part I – The Framework

Provides guidance on how to develop a maritime-specific environmental and efficiency management system, referred to as the Environmental & Efficiency Management Framework

It will assist you in developing and implementing a management system in an easy way and exploit all the benefits that stem from it to create a lasting competitive advantage

It offers a modular approach that users can adapt to their organisation’s needs and circumstances

Part II – The Handbook

• The Handbook is a compendium of technical and regulatory information, advisory resources and templates

• Alongside guidance on the associated environmental impacts of the above issues – and the related international and regional regulatory requirements - each chapter covers how organisations can not only meet these requirements but also the potential business case for moving beyond compliance.

• The Guide also provides templates, for example logbooks, forms and data collection spreadsheets, that support the content and guidance provided.

Part II - Guide for the ships

• Each chapter in Part II gives a short educational introduction to each issue, explaining what the associated environmental impacts are.

• Provides the international and regional requirements.

• Each chapter also covers how your organization can not only meet these requirements - but move beyond them.

• Comprehensive FAQ for each chapter.

Part II – the Handbook

• The Handbook is a compendium of technical and regulatory information, advisory resources and templates

• It is covering the whole spectrum of environmental issues related to ship operations, like:

air emissions oil and chemical pollution evaporation from cargo marine disposals like

waste, garbage and sewage

ballast water aquatic invasive species underwater noise

Part III – The Templates

• The Guide also provides templates, for example logbooks, forms and data collection spreadsheets, that support the content and guidance provided.

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