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OPINIONS ON GREEN SHIPPING

be settled on an ongoing basis using accurate data
to meet financial obligations to buy the right num-
ber of EUAs. Emissions must also be quantified for
environmental reporting to the authorities, as well
as other stakeholders such as banks, charterers and
investors, to measure progress on decarbonisation.
DNV has therefore launched the real-time data ver-
ification solution Emissions Connect™, a collabo-
rative data-sharing tool accessible to all stakehold-
ers – ship manager, owner, operator, charterer and
cargo owner – on the Veracity platform to support
such transactions. This provides a single source
of truth for trusted, reliable and verified emissions
data that is available in real-time for all contractual
parties for operational control and accurate emis-
sions accounting at every part of the value chain to
facilitate financial settlements under the EU ETS.
In addition, Emissions Connect™ can generate
a verified voyage statement based on common
standardised datasets to give an accurate record
of emissions performance that can be shared with
third parties in relation to regulatory compliance,
as well as the Poseidon Principles and Sea Cargo
Charter. It is also possible to simulate and bench-
mark the emissions performance of different voy-
age planning scenarios.

How the shipping company manages existing and
cient technologies into new designs, and regulators upcoming regulations
must provide clear guidelines and incentives. Seamar, a group of companies providing compre-
Training and educating crew on sustainable prac- hensive ship management, agency and logistics
tices, investing in research and development, and services, selected DNV’s Emissions Connect and
maintaining transparency in operations will be key Dynamarine’s data solutions, which were integrated
to staying compliant with evolving regulations. Dig- through Veracity by DNV. Emissions Connect has
italisation and transparency in sustainability report- provided Seamar with a robust data management
ing will help the maritime sector stay on course to framework, analytics, and verified statements that
meet decarbonisation goals. have become the cornerstone of their ETS settle-
At DNV, we believe that sharing trusted data among ment process. The result? A clear course towards
partners is critical to enabling transparent collabo- compliance and efficiency.
ration and reducing efforts to navigate the growing The integrated partnership between their data pro-
number of regulatory schemes and disputes, espe- vider (Dynamarine), Veracity and DNV’s verification
cially as emissions are increasingly tied to costs. services has further increased the frequency and
clarity of their MRV/DCS reports. With this at hand,
CASE STUDY: they are not only meeting their decarbonisation
FROM RAW DATA TO SUSTAINABLE objectives but optimising efficiency and reducing
OPERATIONS their crew’s manual efforts.
DNV has developed an API standard to accommo-
Emissions Connect by DNV fuels the industry’s date the interconnection of emissions data between
collaboration by equipping the maritime value data providers, DNV Veracity and stakeholders.
chain with capabilities to verify and share data – DNV openly offers this opportunity to reduce the
providing the trusted basis needed to facilitate time and effort required from the side of shipping
settlement of EUAs and manage CII performance. companies without entailing any additional costs.
In this section, we explore how Seamar embarked Since ship owners/managers now need to provide
on its journey towards sustainable operations. charterers with verified data within a week after
The EU ETS triggers multiple commercial trans- voyage/month end (BIMCO clause), more frequent
actions among stakeholders to cover EUA costs in log data is an absolute necessity, and daily reporting
relation to voyage charters, and these will need to has become the norm.

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