What Fuel EU penalty will it cost you in shipping if you leave things as they are? We did a little calculation. What would the fine cost be if you simply continued operating a ship with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) in European waters for the next 25 years? For those of you who aren’t familiar with the topic: Since the beginning of this year, seagoing ships have had to either use less climate-damaging bunker when calling at European ports or pay a fine. The formula for calculating the amount of the penalties is set out in EU Regulation 2023/1805. The…

It will start next year. General cargo ships with 400 – 5000 gross tonnage will then begin to report greenhouse gas emissions as soon as they call at at least one port within the European Union. What has been in place for larger ships for several years now also applies to coasters by 2025. In theory, it is very easy to calculate the emission quantities to be reported: calls from outside the EU to the EU (and vice versa) are calculated at 50% of the emissions generated, passages within the EU at 100%. However, ports in which no loading operations…

The phone call was really nice and pleasant. The guy sounded quite experienced and knew the subject. But when I asked him about the topic of reporting software for emissions, he said laconically: “You know, we do it with Excel. We can handle that. We don’t need any extra software for this.” Since 2018, seagoing ships have had to report their CO2 emissions as soon as they call at European ports. Since the beginning of this year, shipping has had to purchase pollution rights (so-called EUAs) for the emissions of their ships. So, CO2 costs money. Now, Fuel EU Maritime…

We at Herberg Systems are currently working our way through the ups and downs of the Fuel EU Maritime Regulation (2023/1805). Now regulations are not necessarily my passion. With the help of various rules and exceptions, the legislature is trying to somehow manage the balancing act between the desired goal (Green EU) and reality (shipping without emissions is not possible (yet), but without shipping there is no economy). It’s summer and vacation time, so maybe we should have a more relaxed approach? If you looked at the whole thing as a novel or screenplay, something like this would come out:…