25 May 2020
The Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to Support Low Carbon Shipping – a key IMO initiative supporting decarbonisation of shipping – will intensify its work on the ship-port interface to reduce emissions from ships. This is one of the outcomes of a GIA task force meeting, which took place over videoconference on 14-15 May. The new workstream aims at creating a holistic approach to reducing emissions in the ship-port interface and it will support implementation by ports of regulatory, technical, operational and economic actions to help reduce GHG emissions from ships, such as providing onshore power supply and safe and efficient bunkering of alternative low-carbon fuels. This new workstream will also identify additional measures that could be taken to reduce emissions in the ship-port interface. The new workstream builds on earlier work undertaken by the GIA on the Just-in-Time Arrival of Ships. The GIA task force meeting was the first meeting held since it became part of GreenVoyage2050, an IMO-executed project, funded by Norway, to initiate and promote global efforts to demonstrate and test technical solutions for reducing ship emissions.