Description
Shipping and the Environment: A Guide to Environmental Compliance the 5th Edition
With emerging alternatives such as new fuels, propulsion systems, energy-efficient practices, digitalization, and efficient logistics, the shipping industry is increasingly focusing on environmental compliance and maritime sustainability. The Shipping and the Environment. A Guide to Environmental Compliance provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory and operational measures needed to reduce the industry’s environmental footprint.
Key Topics Covered:
- Environmental Compliance: Governing rules and systems for sustainable shipping.
- Managing environmental issues both at sea and onshore.
- MARPOL Annex VI and other critical regulations shaping maritime sustainability.
This fifth edition also includes checklists for aligning safety management systems with current environmental standards.
Shipping and the Environment: Future Developments
- Alternative Fuels and propulsion systems.
- Innovations in maritime sustainability through ship technology, green corridors, and digital transformation.
Explore how Shipping and the Environment is helping seafarers and shipping companies meet evolving environmental regulations.
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