The question came up yesterday after my presentation at the maritime business breakfast on Fuel EU: “You said you shouldn’t simply add up Fuel EU penalties for individual months. But I recently heard that you can easily. So what’s the point?” Anyone who has to settle Fuel EU penalties monthly may encounter a strange effect in the medium term: If you calculate the penalties for individual months of a year and add them up, you get a different result than if you settle all months together at once. That sounds like rounding or calculation errors at first, but that’s not…

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…

Admittedly, we’ve been a bit quiet over the last few weeks. But we were busy. Fleettracker now supports BDN-based reporting for Fuel EU Maritime. And implementing that wasn’t as easy as originally thought. We did it – thank you, team! For those of you who deal with Fuel EU on a daily basis in the shipping company, this is nothing new. BDN stands for Bunker Delivery Note and means the paper that documents which fuel has been bunkered on board. In the past, this was usually more of a receipt. In the future, the BDN is actually a crucial document…

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…

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Webinar on Thursday, 14 March 15:00 – 16:00 CET First-hand experience from the first three months into maritime ETS. Join our webinar. Since January 2024, shipowners must surrender EU allowances for every ton of MRV-verified CO2 emissions to adhere to the EU ETS. This has far-reaching implications for shipping companies, demanding a keen understanding and efficient management of the system to ensure compliance. Join us for an insightful webinar where we explore the practical lessons learned in the first three months since the implementation of the EU ETS for the maritime sector. Featuring expert insights from Fleettracker, Swiss Climate, and…