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BACKGROUND OF REGULATION As a first step towards cutting greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport, the EU requires operators of ships exceeding 5,000 GT to monitor and report their carbon emissions and transport work on all voyages to, from and between E.U. ports. M.R.V. APPLICATION All ships exceeding 5,000 GT regardless of their flag, port of registry or home port are concerned, except warships, naval auxiliaries, fish-catching or fish-processing ships, wooden ships of a primitive build, ships not propelled by mechanical means, and government ships used for non-commercial purposes. OUR CONTRIBUTION In reference to M.R.V. Compliance, the most urgent part consists of Monitoring Plan with deadline on 31 st August 2017 . At SMM with our long experience in Vessels’ Performance and having recognized the potential inconsistencies involved during emissions monitoring, we are your best alternative for preparing your Monitoring Plan. More specifi...

New Modules to SMMCrewRestHour ® By S.A. MALLIAROUDAKIS MARITIME ( UK ) LTD . New Useful Features Now SMMCrewRestHour includes Non-Conformance Statistics , in way of individual N/C printout report per month. More specifically, the N/C hours deviation report, expressing as deviation percentage, takes into account the following N/C categories:  - 1st period of rest is less than 6hrs  - 2 periods of rest are less than 10hrs  - 3 periods of rest are less than 10hrs (if 24d exception has been applied)  - 7day period of rest is less than 77hrs  - 7day period of rest is less than 70hrs (if 7Day exception has been applied) - 72hrs period of work is less than 36hrs (OPA-90) If such upgrade appreciated to be of your interest, more than pleased to provide a quotation for these new features. Click here to find out more about SMMCrewHourRest Software SMMCrewHourRest...

Shipping in the Digital Era. In search of the Golden Equilibrium. by Konstantinos Lourandos Energy Efficiency Superintendent Shipping industry is a conservative industry, sometimes too conservative. We have built our “comfort zones” based on the conservative approach of performing tasks for many years in a undoubtedly “safe”, however not always “efficient” way. Safety of Navigation was the main, if not the only concern. The introduction of SEEMP back in 2013, and the unfortunate resonance of the global financial recession and the high prices of HFO, gave birth to the notion of “ Efficiency” in shipping. We have to admit that the environmental implications of shipping were never the driving force for reducing the fuel consumption. In this respect, we started evaluating hull designs, investing in new energy saving technologies to improve the propulsion efficiency, new antifouling coatings to reduce hull resistance and so on, and “s...

Kindly note that recently we have proceeded with an upgrade of MULTILOAD Loading Software in terms of the following new functions.   - EXPORT BAPLIE   More specifically, this new feature enables the user to create or retrieve a container loading condition and then click the "Export Baplie" button on Multiload's Detailed Container Loading screen. Then, the user shall fill-in the required data fields, such as "Sender" and "Receiver" Identification codes (as agreed between partners), "Control", "Message" and "Conveyance" Reference numbers, the vessel's "Call Sign" and the 5 digit code of the "Port of Departure". All the above data are described as mandatory by SMDG's Baplie documentation. Finally, the User must click the "Export" button to select the filename of the export file and the location where this file will be stored. Kindly note that, only conta...

AUTO -MRV REPORTING TO E.U. COMMISSION BY S.A. MALLIAROUDAKIS MARITIME ( UK ) LTD . BACKGROUND OF REGULATION As a first step towards cutting greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport, the EU requires operators of ships exceeding 5,000 GT to monitor and report their carbon emissions and transport work on all voyages to, from and between E.U. ports. M.R.V. APPLICATION All ships exceeding 5,000 GT regardless of their flag, port of registry or home port are concerned, except warships, naval auxiliaries, fish-catching or fish-processing ships, wooden ships of a primitive build, ships not propelled by mechanical means, and government ships used for non-commercial purposes. OUR SOFTWARE In reference to M.R.V. Compliance and more specifically the Reporting Scheme , kindly note that development of an M.R.V.-Specific Software for fully automatic generation of Emissions Reports in line with EU Commission requirem...

  This article is based on the earlier research works of Mr. Daejin Lee to explain the recent trend of the shipping market with a special focus on dry bulk. Shipping is 'Pigs or Chickens'? 'Shipping is just like the country market. By the time the farmer arrives at market with his pig and finds that all the other farmers have bred pigs, it is too late. Price will fall, and the farmer, who has feed bills to pay must accept the price on offer. But this situation was created a year earlier when prices were high and everyone started breeding pigs. The smart farmers saw what other farmers were doing and switched to chickens. This has nothing to do with what the demand for pigs or chickens. It is a supply-side management. We conclude that, like the farmer, the successful shipping company must know when to steer clear of pigs!' * The story of 'Chicken and Pigs' is one of the best parts I have read in 'Maritime economics'. Bad investments often flow from...

The dry bulk market first experienced the worst ever freight market in recent memory but then tripled in a matter of months. Tankers have seen their rates halved, and limited interest for secondary market acquisitions and relatively weak prices. The containership market saw a government-blessed entity (Hanjin) go belly up, which pretty much by itself sums the state of the market; also, seven-year old panamax containerships these days are heading to the scrapyard. Finally, the offshore market has seen brand-new, top-tier drillships idling while another huge oil discovery in Texas has made offshore drilling an even more precarious proposition. However, with the spirit of being thankful upon us, for the ‘harvest’ the industry has had this year and the overall results accomplished (mostly intangible results), one has to be hopeful and even thankful for the shipping industry’s prospects. The drop of the market, especially in the dry bulk, has been the first time that peo...