Help save the planet - Emissions Calculator
Shipping accounts for around 3 percent of global Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. As an industry we must start acting now to reduce emissions for two reasons; firstly, because regulation is coming and secondly because it is the necessary thing to do for the planet.
One of the initial steps we can all do as shipping executives is to calculate and report the emissions of each voyage.
There is a universally agreed formula for calculating shipping carbon emissions based on fuel consumption. IMOS is a perfect platform to measure this because it already calculates estimate and actual fuel consumption per voyage.
My suggestion is to introduce a new function in the voyage calculator that shows the amount of carbon emitted per voyage. This information can be then used to help global reporting of shipping emissions and for those who want to incorporate this figure in Charter Parties or internal reporting systems
This is a small step to implement but a big leap so save our planet.
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12 Feb, '20
Aldo ValerioNice idea, Joe. I’ve seen some configuration with Fuel Types and Veslink MRV Reporting, but we do our calculations outside IMOS.
With Voyage Calculator, it could be interesting to compare emissions with different routing. But the built-in reporting on voyages should give CO2 emission numbers for actuals. We’ll test this out when we get a chance. -
03 Mar, '20
Stephen GreenfieldHi. I'm the developer at Veson who's building this new feature. It's currently in test and will be coming soon! An important thing to mention is that it requires configuring the "CO2 Factor" in your "Fuel/Lube Types", which is the amount of CO2 generated per ton of fuel. This depends on the fuel type, but is typically a number around 3.1 or so. I hope you're as excited as I am about this feature, so if you haven't yet, please configure your fuel types to see these new CO2 calculations. Thanks!
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12 Mar, '20
Per Ostman AdminThis feature has been released.
Added new fields to the Voyage Estimator and Voyage Manager to capture the CO2 emitted per-leg as well as adding an option to minimize the EEOI impact on a voyage by choosing the lowest estimated CO2 emissions in the Estimate. This will require that the CO2 Factor to be properly defined on the Fuel Types in the Data Center. -
18 Mar, '20
ErsinThis is a very good idea and what exactly we, as Yara, are seeking for. We have agreed with Veson consultants in a manual way of capturing CO2 emissions per voyage by entering the actual CO2 consumption amount into a user defined field at the voyage, but this development should definitely help to eliminate the manual work. @Per Ostman, is this functionality working with Voyage Chartering? Or will it be only working with Time Chartering? Appreciate to get guidance from you on this functionality!
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18 Mar, '20
Per Ostman AdminHi Ersin, thanks for your comment. This is available for both voyage charters and time charters -- any voyage type where bunkers are tracked.