The first-ever Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) certification for a large[ds_preview] container vessel owned and operated by Hapag-Lloyd has been conducted by Germanischer Lloyd (GL).
The EEDI certificate is issued in accordance with the voluntary EEDI guidelines, MEPC.1/Circ.681 and 682 of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). With this first EEDI certification, Hapag-Lloyd emphasizes its leadership in sustainable container shipping. The attained EEDI value of the Hapag-Lloyd vessel is significantly better than the present average vessel of this size (based on Lloyd’s database), underlining the high energy efficiency of the vessel‘s design. This documents that leading members of the maritime industry are pro-actively pursuing measures to improve the energy efficiency of merchant vessels and, thus, reducing the CO2-emissions considerably. In 2003, the IMO initiated developments related to the reduction of greenhouse gases from ships. The recent focus has been on the EEDI which is conceived as a future mandatory newbuilding standard. The EEDI compares theoretical CO2 emissions and transport work of a vessel (gCO2/(t*nm)) and will eventually be benchmarked against an IMO-set requirement.
