The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a mandatory Fuel Oil Data Collection System (DCS) for inter-national shipping, requiring ships of 5,000 gross tonnages or above to start collecting and reporting data to an IMO database from 2019.
Briese is doing the verification with Korean Register and DNV GL. At the moment the SEEMP Part II will be reviewed by the above mentioned classification societies on behalf of flag administrations.
From beginning of next year all voyages must be reported and the data shall be collected by BERT or by a separate tool. Further information will follow in due course.
IMO DCS and SEEMP
At the first glance this sounds very similar to the EU MRV reg-ulation but EU MRV and IMO DCS schemes differ. Whereas EU MRV is part of a wider EU strategy for GHG reduction the amendments to MARPOL Annex VI (IMO DCS) makes the data collection system for fuel oil consumption of ships mandatory.
The key differences are as following:
Briese is doing the verification with Korean Register and DNV GL. At the moment the SEEMP Part II will be reviewed by the above mentioned classification societies on behalf of flag administrations.
From beginning of next year all voyages must be reported and the data shall be collected by BERT or by a separate tool. Further information will follow in due course.