Ship Energy Efciency Management Plan
Contents
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List o Abbreviations
3. Developing a SEEMP 3.1
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1. Introduction & User Guidelines: Step-by-Step SEEMP
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2. The Regulation 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8
IMO guidance
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Stage 1: Plan
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Stage 2: Implement
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Stage 3: Monitor
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Stage 4: Evaluate
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Beyond the guidelines Energy Auditing Company-level processes Integration with existing processes External reporting
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Development of SEEMP regulation The regulation The guidelines Entry into force Application Survey and certication Enforcement Conclusion on the regulation
4. Description o Measures 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4
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Voyage planning Main Engine Propulsion and Hydrodynamics On-board power management
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5. Applicable Measures by Ship Type
Appendix 1: 2012 Guidelines or the Development o a Ship Energy Efciency Management Plan (Resolution MEPC.213(63))
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6. SEEMP Template
Header List of abbreviations Documents referred to in preparation of SEEMP Introduction Log of overall eciency trend Table of measures Description of measures
1. Introduction 2. Denitions 3. General 4. Framework and structure of the SEEMP 5. Guidance on best practices for fuelecient operation of ships
Appendix 2: Guidelines or Voluntary use o EEOI (MEPC.1/CIRC.684)
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1. Introduction & User Guidelines: Step-by-Step SEEMP From 1 January 2013, all ships over 400GT on international
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voyages will be required to carry a Ship Energy Eciency Management Plan (SEEMP), detailing the operational and technical measures that will be implemented on board to improve eciency and therefore reduce fuel consumption.
SEEMP is a ‘soft’ regulation: there is no mechanism to force or even incentivise ship operators to implement the measures listed in their SEEMPs. Monitoring and enforcement is limited to verifying simply that the SEEMP exists-see more detail on the regulation in Section 2.
* Resolution
MEPC.213(63),
see Appendix 1.
On the face of it, compliance with the SEEMP regulation should be straightforward, and indeed generic SEEMPs that can be quickly tailored to give the appearance of a customised plan are available. As these typically follow the format set out in the IMO Guidelines on the Development of a SEEMP*, they ‘pre-comply’ with both elements of the Regulation – to carry a SEEMP and for it to have been developed in accordance with the Guidelines. The usual rationale for a ‘bare compliance’ approach to regulation is to keep costs to a minimum, but SEEMPs have the potential to save money for operators by reducing fuel bills. The more thoroughly one is designed and implemented, the greater the potential savings, but even a simple SEEMP, followed properly, will give benets.
« Even a simple SEEMP, followed properly, will give benets. » Given that there is a requirement to develop a SEEMP, many operators will wish to examine how they can capture the eciency gains in practice. But the regulation is so open-ended, and the spectrum of potential measures to improve energy eciency is so broad – ranging from small, no-cost initiatives such as encouraging crew to switch o lights and appliances, to the installation of major pieces of retrot equipment such as waste heat recovery systems – that it can be dicult to know where to begin.
« This publication is designed to be a simple and practical stepby-step guide to developing a SEEMP that balances operators’ desire for a straightforward means of complying with the SEEMP regulation with their wish to reap the benets of energy eciency measures. »
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This publication is designed to be a simple and practical step-by-step guide to developing a SEEMP that balances operators’ desire for a straightforward means of complying with the SEEMP regulation with their wish to reap the benets of energy eciency measures SEEMP.
Through following these guidelines and utilising the templates, any operator should be able to create a tailored. ship–specic SEEMP with ease. The manual is designed to be placed on–board the ship and contain the actual SEEMP that the crew use. this is an ocial ship’s document and may be required to be presented to Port State Control. Remember:
The more costly and t echnologically complex measures of course require a signicant amount of assessment and evaluation before implementation. But this should not blind operators to the fact that there are many measures that deliver tangible benets and can be implemented very quickly.
These measures could form the basis of the initial SEEMP that is required from the beginning of 2013, with more extensive measures evaluated in subsequent iterations, using the IMO’s recommended cycle of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation -detailed further in Section 3 .
By ensuring that a number of simple energy-saving measures are properly implemented and monitored during the initial iteration of a SEEMP, operators will not only begin to shave costs from their fuel bills, they will increase awareness of and commitment to energy saving amongst crew and onshore sta, and, crucially, they will be gathering the data that will underpin the evaluation of further measures.
2. The Regulation Accordingly in Section 4, which describes possible measures for inclusion in a SEEMP, the broad areas of ‘Voyage Planning’, ‘Main Engine’, ‘Propulsion and Hydrodynamics’ and ‘On-board Power management’ are split into Quick Wins and Further Investments.
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Development o SEEMP regulation The concept of a voluntary tool to assist ship operators
Quick Wins require only modest upfront investment and are
with energy eciency management has been the least
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recommended for rst-generation SEEMPs. Further Investments involve greater capital (monetary) expenditure or assessment of suitability and are recommended for possible inclusion in later iterations of the SEEMP.
controversial of the GHG reduction mechanisms considered by the International Maritime Organization, and the industry has played a leading role in developing the regulations.
Further Investments are not treated in great depth in this Manual, and not
all potential energy-saving measures have been listed – the focus is on well-established options, rather than more radical technologies that are often in earlier stages of technological development. A whole range of energy-saving measures can be accessed at Fathom-CTech.com, where ship owners and operators can register free of charge. This includes descriptions of the technologies as well as analysis of the providers, products, and estimates of potential fuel savings.
* MEPC 58/INF.7
*(2) GHG-WG 2/4/1.
A coalition of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), Intercargo, Intertanko and the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) submitted a draft Ship Eciency Management Plan to in 2008* and further rened this draft for an inter-sessional meeting the following year *(2)
Section 5 shows at a glance which measures are applicable to which ship
types, while Section 6 oers a template for rapid development of a shipspecic SEEMP.
Note that the measures and suggestions are not an exhaustive list and should not be treated as such. Not all measures will be applicable to all vessels and in each situation just those that are right for the ship and the company should be chosen. A Ship Energy Eciency Management Plan should be a living document and under constant review. It does not need to cover every potentially applicable measure in Iteration One.
* MEPC.1/Circ.683
* Resolution MEPC.203(62)
* Appendix 2 of this Manual
Guidelines for development of the Ship Energy Eciency Management Plan (SEEMP) regulations were agreed at the following session, MEPC 59 in 2009, and circulated* for voluntary application. The regulations themselves were eventually adopted as an amendment to MARPOL Annex VI at MEPC 62 in July 2011 as Regulation 22.* MEPC 63 in February 2012 adopted revised SEEMP Guidelines as Resolution MEPC.213(63) – 2012 Guidelines for the Development of a Ship Energy Eciency Management Plan (SEEMP).* ** Any of the guidelines mentioned can be accessed through the IMO website (www.imo.org) and a simple search of the term on the internet will reveal them.
