The bunker and shipping industry has welcomed the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) mandatory marine fuel consumption data regulation for global shipping from 2019, reported Platts, which researches and analyses energy news.
The new regulation 22A on collection and reporting of ship fuel oil consumption data and new appendices, was adopted by IMO’s marine environment protection committee (MEPC) on October 28 as amendments to chapter 4 of annex VI of the Marpol agreement.
The purpose of 22A is to obtain a more accurate picture of the contribution of shipping to global carbon emissions as part of a three-step approach, starting with data collection, followed by data analysis, and finally policy decisions.
The regulation requires ships above 5 000 gross tonnage to start collecting and reporting data to an IMO ship fuel oil consumption database from the start of 2019, the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) said on its website.
“These amendments are expected to enter into force on March 1, 2018, under the tacit acceptance procedure,” it added.
Under this regulation, ships will have to collect consumption data for each type of fuel oil they use, and additional, specified data including proxies for transport work according to a methodology set out in the ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP), the IBIA said.
