KR Webzine Vol.163

KR continues to develop and provide its EEXI calculation program which reflects the results of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 75th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting in November 2020. The program actively supports shipping companies’ as they seek to comply with EEXI - a decarbonization regulation that will take effect in 2023.

The revised MARPOL Annex VI, including final EEXI calculations and verification guidelines, were adopted at IMO’s 76th MEPC which was held from 10-17 June this year. 

KR has been providing its EEXI calculation program through the KR GEARs website (GHG Emission Authentic Reporting System) since 2019, and on 17 August it released an updated version to reflect the recently adopted guidelines. 

The revised EEXI calculation program has been updated to include an added 83% MCRlim calculation function and sequential estimation method for EEXI calculation, which has updated the correction factor calculation function as applied to ro-ro cargo ships.

KR also provided in its August updates an additional output function for EEXI calculation results. KR will further develop and apply updates to its program’s EEXI technical file, onboard management manual plans, and written plans to link to the KR Electronic Plan Approval System (KR-EPAS) by the end of this year.

The web-based EEXI calculation program is available to KR customers on the ‘KR GEARs’ ship GHG emission online management system, on the official KR website.