GTT Marine, a business unit of the GTT Group, and maritime verification body Normec Verifavia have announced a new integration between the former’s Vesper Insights solution and the latter’s Emissions Verification Platform. In a statement issued yesterday (28 September), GTT Marine said the integration enables the secure and automated transfer of vessel performance, voyage and emissions data directly into Normec Verifavia’s verification platform. ‘By eliminating manual file exchanges and reducing data handling across multiple systems, ship operators can streamline compliance processes while improving data consistency and transparency throughout the reporting cycle,’ GTT Marine said. The solution is designed to address what GTT Marine describes as ‘the growing […]

Reflecting on the discussions which took place at last week’s Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG 22), Alasdair Wishart, Director of Technical and Policy at the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST), believes that the conversation has moved on significantly since the suspension of the Net Zero Framework (NZF) adoption process in 2025. While important disagreements remain, the debate is increasingly about how the framework should be refined, rather than whether it should exist at all. In the first week of September more than 1,200 delegates of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) came […]

The Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG 22) concluded on Friday (4 September) with Chair Sveinung Oftedal observing: ‘a genuine willingness within the Group’ to make concrete further progress on the Net Zero Framework (NZF) at the next ISWG-GHG meeting ‘and work towards presenting text to MEPC 85’ in late November. As previously reported by ship.energy, the NZF was scheduled to be formally adopted at an Extraordinary Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) last October, only for Member States to vote to adjourn the meeting for a year. Talks continued during MEPC 84 held in […]