FuelEU Maritime
FuelEU Maritime (FEUM) Regulation
What is FuelEU Maritime Regulation?
FuelEU Maritime Applicability
FuelEU Maritime is applicable for ships above 5,000 GT calling at EU (precisely EEA) ports, regardless of their flag. This means that EU voyages – between two EU ports (100% applicability), or from EU port to non-EU port (50% applicability), or from non-EU port to EU port (50% applicability) will fall under the scope of this FuelEU Regulation. Apart from that, energy used by ships at berth in EU/EEA ports (100% applicability) also falls under this scope. The scope could change in a scheduled review by a committee towards the end of year 2027.
Some ship types are exempt from this regulation, such as Warships, Naval Auxiliaries, Fish-catching & fish-processing ships, Ships not propelled by mechanical means, and Govt. ships used for non-commercial purposes.
Main Goals of FuelEU Maritime Regulation
Goal #1 : Reduce the GHG Intensity of the Energy used onboard
Goal #2 : Promote the use of Onshore Power Supply (OPS)
Goal #3 : Incentivize the use of Renewable Fuels and RFNBOs (Renewable Fuels of non-biological origin)
Timelines for FuelEU Maritime Regulation
Firstly, you need to submit a FuelEU Monitoring plan to your verifier on THETIS before 31st August 2024.
What is a monitoring plan? It is a document that shipowners have to create which will outline how they will monitor & report the amount of energy & fuel used by ships. If you’ve not done so by now, kindly submit it to the EU at the earliest. You can refer to our FueEU Monitoring Plan Page for additional help
What all data is required to be submitted
Per-voyage basis monitoring
Annual Basis Monitoring
- Port of Departure & Arrival – Date & Hours
- Amount consumed of each fuel type, BDNs
- Amount of electricity through OPS
- For each fuel, WtW, TtW Emission Factors
- Time Spent at Sea & at Berth
- Amount of each type of substitute energy
- Ice-class conditions, if applicable
Companies shall record the voyage information in a timely & transparent manner and compile them on a annual basis
By 31st January of the verification period, they
shall provide a ship-specific report to the verifier
to verify compliance with this regulation
Per-voyage basis monitoring
Per-voyage basis monitoring
Maritime transport-related emissions are around a 1000 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Because of the ever-increasing trading between nations, shipping fleets are only going increase by 50%-250% in the coming 15 years.
Why FuelEU?
Maritime transport-related emissions are around a 1000 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Because of the ever-increasing trading between nations, shipping fleets are only going increase by 50%-250% in the coming 15 years.
With the current rate of emission, this will violate the Paris Agreement which agrees to keep global temperature rise to below 2 degrees C, compared to pre-industrial levels.
TtW v/s WtW
Well-to-Wake (WtW) considers the complete life cycle of fuel-related emissions, providing a fuller impact assessment, and is the basis of GHG Energy Intensity calculation for Fuel EU
Previously, only Tank-to-Wake (TtW) emmissions, i.e. emissions from the fuel tanks of ships to the exhaust were considered to be in the scope of overall shipping emmissions. The FuelEU Maritime Regulation considers the upstream emissions as well – the GHG Emissions during extraction, production, distribution and transportation of fuel up to the point it is loaded into the ship’s fuel tank
The use of RFNBOs
Biofuels which are food and feed crop Biofules are taken as Fossil Fuels and have no reward factor. Using fuels of non-biological origins & are renewable is an objective
A certificate that highlights the quality of fuel used & the WtT Emissions should be made available along with the BDNs during Bunkering
How does FuelEU Maritime work?
FuelEU Maritime works through a fuel carbon intensity limit that becomes stricter over time. There are two
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