Description

With emerging alternatives such as new fuels, propulsion systems, energy-efficient practices, digitalization, and efficient logistics, the shipping industry is exploring numerous ways to become more environmentally sustainable. Shipping and the Environment provides shipping companies and seafarers with a comprehensive guide to the wide range of regulatory and operational measures aimed at reducing the industry’s environmental footprint, covering:

• Key environmental issues related to shipping
• The governing rules and systems
• Managing environmental concerns both at sea and onshore
• Implementing improvements in operations
• Anticipating future developments

This guide helps crew members understand the critical relationship between shipping and the environment, emphasizing the need for environmental responsibility in daily operations. Superintendents will gain a thorough overview of the global regulatory landscape, including updates to MARPOL Annex VI, the introduction of the EU Emissions Trading System, and national regulations impacting global shipping. It also includes checklists to assist shipping companies in ensuring their safety management systems comply with current environmental standards and that vessels operate within regulatory frameworks.

This fifth edition builds on the success of the previous Shipping and the Environment: A Code of Practice, Fourth Edition, which has sold over 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