Encounter of ATHENA on the management of energy efficiency of the ships



Today to Rome an encounter has held on the topic "Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP). How to improve efficiency" organized from the section of Rome of the Italian Association of Naval Technology (ATHENA) with the Shipping support of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma).

The reunion, is turned in the center of Confitarma, is centralized on energy efficiency, the reduction of the consumption, the monitoring of the conduction and the use of the onboard equipments and has taken to the cue from it obligation for all the ships to have, beginning from next 1° January 2013, of a manual SEEMP (Ship Energy Efficiency Plan Management) with the indication of energy efficiency of the systems.

"As ATHENA - the president of the roman section of the association has explained, Massimo De Domenico - we have intentional to give a contribution to the sharing of the acquaintances on systems, technologies and methodologies that can offer conditions for a better energy efficiency of the ships. We have had the support and the sharing of our programs by Confitarma and all the Italian marine cluster because all we consider that the engagement in order to improve the efficiency of all the system of the marine transport is the essential condition for the economic development of the system and for a more effective protection of the atmosphere. These motivations - it has concluded De Domenico - constitute one of the points of greater engagement for ATHENA, as it is evidenced in the course of the recent convention NAV 2012 held to Naples in last month of October".

With the participation of representatives of numerous supplier industries of systems and naval systems, between which ABB, Man B&W, Wartsila in the field of the constructors of engines, Exxonmobil Marine and Hansen Jensen Lubricators in the field of the lubrication, Caim, Cetena and CNR Insean in the field of the planning and the aid to navigation, the most recent realizations in the field of the engines, systems of lubrication are introduced, aids to navigation, whose I use can offer to the armament societies the conditions in order more better to obtain the parameters than demanded efficiency.

Rich the presence of society technicians owners of a shipping company, with the important participation groups between which Perseverance of Navigation, Siblings of Friend, Friend of Navigation, Finaval, Marnavi, Grimaldi, GNV and of the General Command 6° Unit and Marina Militare.