Maritime Emission Manager Course

The process towards developing the ISO19030 started when the Environmental NGO Bellona Foundation and Jotun A/S had informal discussions on how to improve energy efficiency within the maritime sector. Bellona Foundation looked for a robust and verifiable way to reduce CO₂ emissions, whereas Jotun A/S saw the need for a more transparent approach to verify a myriad of performance claims on hull and propeller maintenance.

A series of workshops held in accordance with Chatham House Rules involved a steadily increasing number of stakeholders and paved the way for a common understanding among performance monitoring companies, measurement manufacturers, ship maintenance system providers, classification societies, shipbuilders and ship-owners and their associations. Bellona Foundation and Jotun subsequently held a side-event at IMO-MEPC meetings and presented the embryo for a reliable and transparent hull and performance standard at several maritime conferences.

Work on the ISO-Standard was initiated in June 2013 when Working Group 7 under SC2 TC8 was formed. Svend Søyland from Nordic Energy Research serves as the Convener of the working group and Geir Axel Oftedahl from Jotun has the role as Project Manager. A series of Working Group meetings were held; Oslo (June 2013), Tokyo (November 2013), Hamburg (July 2014), Pusan (November 2014), San Ramon (February 2015) and Copenhagen (September 2015). More than 50 experts and observers, representing ship owners, shipping associations, new build yards, coatings manufacturers, performance monitoring companies, academic institutions, class societies and NGOS participated in the ISO working group that reached consensus on ISO 19030 standard (Ziarati et al, MariFuture, Development Papers, 2018-2019).