Hong Kong based ship manager Wallem Ship Management and Hamburg’s Zeaborn Ship Management have selected Verifavia Shipping to conduct EU monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) and IMO data collection system (DCS) services.
Verifavia Shipping will provide EU MRV and IMO DCS verification on most of Wallem’s Liberia and Panama flagged vessels. It will also certify all of the IT systems used by Zeaborn Ship Management for these regulations.
Verifavia will use its existing knowledge, expertise, and understanding of the IMO and EU requirements to offer shipowners and operators a streamlined and cost-effective verification process.
According to Verifavia, shipowners and operators face the additional burden of submitting data in a specific way that goes beyond regulatory requirements in order to meet the requirements set by many Recognised Organisations (ROs). Owners and operators that use more than one RO are choosing to work with a single supplier of independent verification services for these regulations rather than risking a conflict of interest between class societies.
Julien Dufour, CEO, Verifavia Shipping, who believes there is a common and unhelpful misconception that data must be submitted to the verifier in a certain format, commented: “A key drive for both these organisations has been the ability to work with a verifier that offers maximum flexibility. If the content is complete and compliant with the requirements of the regulations, it can be submitted in any format, from simple spreadsheets, to advanced mark-up language format, or more complex formats used in IT systems for monitoring vessel performance. We then take the burden of transforming the data into a workable format for the verification.”
He added: “We are extremely proud to be working with both Wallem and Zeaborn Ship Management, and believe that this is testament not only to our expertise, but also our genuinely differentiated approach as an independent emissions verifier. Both companies will now benefit from obtaining a flexible, top-class verification service at a reasonable price from a single point of contact, streamlining the reporting and verification process.”
