Bureau Veritas has awarded a Cleanship Super notation to a newbuild Aframax tanker verifying the vessel’s pollution control credentials.
Green Admire is the first oil tanker to receive the BV pollution prevention notation Cleanship Super
Green Admire is the first of a series of four vessels being delivered to Aegean Shipping Management by COSCO Yangzhu in China.
“Aegean Shipping Management SA is committed to building vessels which adopt innovative technologies and ecological systems with the aim to reduce our environmental footprint and at the same time to enhance the safety of our people and the cargoes we are carrying all over the world,” saidGeorge Melissanidis, principal, Aegean Shipping Management SA.
Eco-friendly
The vessel is the first oil tanker to receive the BV pollution prevention notation Cleanship Super.
This notation recognises that a number of steps have been taken to ensure that the vessel has been designed to control and limit its emissions of polluting substances in the sea and the air, beyond the standard MARPOL requirements.
Despite its conventional design, the vessel includes a number of innovations and environmental initiatives aimed at limiting air and sea pollution.
These include additional eco-friendly systems such as a grey water treatment system, an oily water separator set at 5ppm, an integrated bilge water treatment system, zero use of ozone depleting substances, as well as many arrangements in piping systems to strictly prevent and control oil leaks.
The new systems combined with a SEEMP compiled and applied by Aegean, IMO Tier III for NOx and EEDI Phase 2, enable the vessel to also qualify for BV’s Sustainableship I notation.
Green Admire also applied voluntarily to the unique BV notation Elastic Shaft Alignment (ESA). This means its shafting system and alignment have been designed to take into account the hull flexibility and deflections during service.
The vessel will also be the first newbuilt vessel to utilise the BV Planned Maintenance System Platform, optimising the vessel’s machinery surveys and offering the possibility for advanced condition-based maintenance in the near future.
