The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has agreed on mandatory requirements for ships to record and report their fuel consumption.
Under the agreement, which will be drafted for inclusion under MARPOL annex VI at MEPC 70, ships of 5,000 GT+ will be required to collect consumption data for each type of fuel used in addition to other specified data.
This data will have to be reported to flag state at the end of each calendar year.
Under the ruling, if the ship’s consumption data meets requirements, the flag state will issue each ship with a statement of compliance and will transfer the anonymised data to the IMO Ship Fuel Consumption Database.
The data collection requirements could enter into force as early as 2018.
A hefty part of discussions this week at the IMO’s 69th MEPC, the data collection system will feed into future policy debates around shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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