Description
From alternative fuels and propulsion systems, via energy-efficient practices, to digitalization and efficient logistics, many possibilities are emerging to make the shipping industry a greener industry. Shipping and the Environment gives shipping companies and seafarers a comprehensive entry point into the vast range of regulatory and operational considerations designed to reduce shipping’s environmental footprint, including:
- Key environmental topics related to shipping;
- The rules and systems governing them;
- How environmental issues are managed at sea and ashore;
- How improvements can be delivered at sea and ashore; and
- Future developments.
This guide will help crew members understand the relationship between shipping and the environment, and the importance for everyone involved in shipping to respect the environment in their daily operations. Superintendents will benefit from a comprehensive overview of current and upcoming global regulatory framework, including the most recent updates to MARPOL Annex VI, the introduction of the EU Emissions Trading System, and national regulations that affect global shipping. Checklists are included to help shipping companies ensure the safety management system is in line with current environmental requirements, and that all ships are operating in line with environmental regulations.
This fifth edition builds on the success of the previous edition, Shipping and the Environment: A Code of Practice, Fourth Edition, which has sold more than 10,000 copies.
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 What shipping does and how
1.2 Design and building
2 Controlling and mitigating the risk of marine pollution
2.1 What is marine pollution?
2.2 Sources and effects of marine pollution
2.3 Who regulates the environmental protection laws?
2.4 Categorising marine pollution and the associated laws
3 Shipping company and shipboard best practices
3.1 Environmental, social and governance (ESG) statement
3.2 Training, awareness and competence
3.3 Environmental standards relevant to ISM compliance
3.4 Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plans
3.5 Shipboard documentation
3.6 Technical equipment
3.7 Oily water separators
3.8 Control devices
3.9 Digitalisation options
3.10 Ballast water management
3.11 Hull biofouling
3.12 Underwater noise
3.13 Single-use plastics
3.14 Internal monitoring and reporting of environmental compliance
3.15 Audits of environmental compliance
3.16 External reporting of environmental non-compliance
3.17 Commercial elements
3.18 Shipping finance
3.19 Insurance
3.20 Additional tools and indices
4 Future developments
4.1 Alternative fuels and propulsion methods
4.2 Green corridors
4.3 Grey water
4.4 Black carbon
4.5 Biofouling
4.6 Ship building
4.7 Ship technology, design and construction
4.8 Carbon capture at sea
4.9 Digital transformation
Appendices