“The United Nations’ International Maritime Organisation (IMO), through is Marine Environment Protection Committee, has created the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) as a means of evaluating vessel design efficiency. To this end, the IMO is supportive of complimentary tools that build on or use the IMO methodology to provide transparent overviews of ships' design efficiency. Benchmarking the efficiency of vessels is a key tool in improving the overall efficiency of the international shipping fleet.”

United Nations’ International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

“There are already organizations using the EEDI on existing tonnage and now the Carbon War Room is set to make the information readily available to anyone. I am normally sceptical about pontificating environmental lobby groups, but on this case I think the CWR has a point, it should be made available for existing tonnage as much as new ships, if the shippers want it.”

Craig Eason, Bill Barratry's Blog

“First I would like to thanks your organisation for providing such as an valuable service. The disclosure of vessels energy efficiency rating is a great initiative which I hope will continue to be adopted in the shipping industry.”

Lars Erick Mangset,
WWF-Norway

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