According to engine industry body CIMAC, the 81st session of the IMO Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC81) has set the right course.
The progress made, for example, on the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) guidelines are considered encouraging. Many proposals on midterm measures, especially the pricing mechanism, were submitted at MEPC 81.
Dirk Bergmann, Chair of the CIMAC GHG Strategy Group said: “The decisions made present an optimistic picture of what is to come. We are now looking forward with great interest to the up MEPC 82 and 83 meetings. It was obvious that it would take a significant effort to align everyone in the international community. CIMAC supports the so called ‘IMO net-zero framework’ as a structure for the upcoming regulation, sees the progress made there and hopes for further steps to come.”
Peter Müller Baum, CIMAC Secretary General added: “CIMAC sees much potential in the developments of the short-term measures. We believe that it is now particularly important that the Well-to-Wake (WtW) measurement is implemented for the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII), the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) and the Energy Efficiency Index for Existing Ships (EEXI) instead of the prevailing Tank-to-Wake (TtW) measurement. MEPC 81 has made progress on important issues. We hope that the process will continue to accelerate and will gladly support this to the best of our ability.”
