Environmental concerns

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Environmental concerns

• Environmental challenges for Tanker owners
• SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES
• Peter M Swift

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Environmental concerns

• Recycling
• Ballast Water Management
• Air Emissions (Engine)
• Air Emissions (Cargo)
• Discharges to the sea
• Ship Selection
• Pilotage
• Ship-to-ship transfers

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MEETING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES SHARED
RESPONSIBILITIES
SHIP DESIGNER
SHIPBUILDER
REGULATORS

• SHIPOWNER / MANAGER
• has
• PRIME RESPONSIBILITY

EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER
CARGO INTERESTS / CHARTERERS
SHIP BREAKER
PORTS TERMINALS
FUEL SUPLLIERS
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Recycling Challenges
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International guidelines on best practice
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Recycling Challenges

• Owner
• Support maintain Green Passport
• Deliver to breaker with Inventory of Hazardous
  Material
• Adopt best practice demolishing contract
• Builder
• Deliver ship with Green Passport
• Breaker
• Adopt Recycling Plan (IMO)
• Adopt HSE best practice codes (ILO)
• Adopt Hazardous waste handling best practices
  (Basel)
• National governments
• Standardise Green Passport (format)
• Develop HSE regulations for breakers
• Licence / approve shipbreaking yards

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Ballast Water ManagementInternational Ballast
Water Convention 14 Guidelines

• Owner / Industry
• Develop effective solutions to these challenges
• Regulators
• Maintain international regime
• Ports Terminals
• Provide discharge facilities

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Air Emissions (Engine)

• Owner
• Is customer for fuels
• 50,000 ships
• Support Engine developments
• Bunker supplier
• Is service provider
• 250 suppliers
• All
• Constructive dialogue on revision of Annex VI

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Air Emissions (Cargo)Loading and On Passage

• Owner
• Adopt Best Practice
• Charterer
• Incentivise support owners

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Oil in the oceans

• Owners
• Condemn illegal discharges
• Adhere strictly to operating procedures
• Ports Terminals
• Provide adequate and affordable reception
  facilities
• Insurers
• Incentivise owners
• Industry
• Research further zero discharge options

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Ship Selection Baltic / Black Sea 2000-2005
tankers above 50,000 dwt
Baltic Sea
Black Sea


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Pilotage

• Model Clause
• Where the vessel is to pass through the
  entrances to the Baltic Sea the vessel shall
  comply with the recommendations set out in the
  IMO Resolution MSC.138(76) adopted on 5 December
  2002 as amended from time to time including the
  use of pilots for the passage. Charterers shall
  reimburse owners for any pilotage expenses
  incurred by compliance with these recommendations
  on any ballast passage to a port of loading or on
  the laden passage unless such expenses have
  already been taken into account in the freight
  payable in accordance with the terms and
  conditions of Worldscale.

• Owner
• Adopt IMO recommendations
• Charterers
• Support owners (charter party)
• Insurers
• Apply economic (dis)incentives
• Pilots
• Improve Master-Pilot Exchange

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STS Ship-to-ship transfers

• Model Clause
• If lightering is necessary to enter any
  designated port, or if the cargo is loaded or
  discharged in whole or in part by ship to ship
  (STS) transfer, such lightering or STS (The
  lighterage) shall be performed in accordance to
  the latest edition of the ICS/OCIMF STS Transfer
  Guide (Petroleum) as of the date of the
  transhipment. Charterers shall pay the costs of
  providing all hoses, fenders and equipment
  necessary for the lighterage, as reasonably
  required by lighterage operators.

• Owner
• Adopt Best Practices
• Charterers
• Support owners (charter party)
• Insurers
• Apply economic (dis)incentives
• Governments / Regulators
• Designate preferred zones

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POSEIDON CHALLENGESingapore 30-31 March 2006

• POSEIDON CHALLENGE
• - STRIVING FOR ZERO
• The Poseidon Challenge is an invitation to all
  participants in the Chain of Responsibility to
  join INTERTANKO members in a sustained commitment
  to CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. It is founded upon
  the principle that the shared goals of zero
  accidents, cleaner seas and the elimination of
  the sub-standard can best be achieved by
  voluntary, cooperative and self motivated
  efforts.

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