They have been the 3,610 ships that in five years are joined the Environmental Ship Index



(ESI), the index that assigns a score from 0 to 100 from the more polluting ships to those to emissions zero and that World Ports Climate of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH takes part of the initiative), the association to which is under responsibility beyond 200 world-wide ports. The data is introduced today to Paris in the within of the international conference on climate COP21/CMP11.

Emphasizing the satisfaction for the attainment of this result, in charge of the European office of IAPH, Fer van de Laar, it has evidenced that "the ESI proposes as an instrument simple but powerful for the ports and in supporting shipowners to the vanguard to realize advanced performances to previewed how much from the laws. In such a way - it has observed - they contribute to improve the atmosphere and they help the ports to obtain the authorizations in order to operate".

The ESI is planned originally by the ports of the Havre, Bremen, Amburgo, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Rotterdam ( on 2 November 2010). The index expresses the environmental performances of the atmospheric ships in terms of polluting oxide emissions (of nitrogen and carbon dioxide and sulfur oxides).

Score 1 indicates already an improvement regarding the current environmental norms for the marine transport and 100 indicate the better performance in absolute. The IAPH has announced that of the 3,610 which joined ships the ESI in the quinquennium, .

Moreover the international association of the ports has announced that up to now they are the 40 ports that use index ESI in order to reward the ships that anticipate a minor impact on the atmosphere, to which grant reductions in price that they vary from 5% to 100% of the amount of the harbour taxes. "The number of ports that reward the ships - has specified Van de Laar - it does not grow, but we are working alacremente in order to make newly to increase it, because a greater participation of ports means the recording of a greater number of ships".

"The environmental norms for the shipping - it has continued Fer van de Laar - become more and more severe, but we want to make sure that the ships can continue to benefit of reductions in price ESI. We want to encourage the efficient marine transport, but it is not easy to develop appropriate standards. The many factors that must be taken in consideration - type of cargo, engines, volumes, draught - return a procedure complex. But - it has specified Van de Laar - we have found a solution: every ship becomes self-referential. The ships that communicate to us how many miles have travelled in a year and the fuel that they have consumed receives boosting points. Being three of data, we will be able to compare them and to estimate if in the next years they have navigated in more efficient way. To this it can be connected a new incentive".