Alternative Fuels for Shipping in the Baltic

Sea Region

Towards the Fossil Free Society 2050 – Liquefied Bio Gas (LBG) and the 360° vision by the Municipality of Samsø3 October 2018 – Samsø, Denmark

Alexey Bakhtov 03.10.2018

Baltic Sea Shipping Visualized

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Ships in the Baltic Sea (based on HELCOM AIS data from 2006 to 2016 including cargo, tanker, passenger and container ships which account for 80% of the traffic of the larger (IMO) ships).

Baltic Marine EnvironmentProtectionCommission

Helsinki Commission

• Governing body of the Helsinki Convention

• intergovernmental • legal commitment• watershed-based• policy-maker

• Coverage – Whole

catchment area– 9 coastal + 5

non-coastal countries

• Members:– Contracting

Parties– Observers

• Other states• Stakeholder

organizations• NGOs

• HELCOM Recommendations:– on measures to address certain pollution sources or areas of

concern– to be implemented by the Contracting Parties through their

national legislation• Ministerial Declarations

– high level meetings every 3-5 years– Assessment of progress and setting of new objectives and

commitments• Baltic Sea Action Plan (2007-2021)

– programme to restore the good ecological status of the Baltic marine environment by 2021

Main implementation tools

Organization

Each group includes representatives from all countries and relevant observer organizations

• HELCOM Ministerial Declaration 2013: a commitment to work towards the creation of a joint “Green Technology and Alternative Fuels Platform for Shipping”

• Conference on “Sustainable Baltic Sea Shipping, Green technology and alternative fuels with focus on air emissions” on board the LNG fueled passenger ship Viking Grace.

• Sub-group Green Technology and Alternative Fuels for Shipping (GREEN TEAM)

• “Draft Roadmap for future actions” in shipping in the Baltic Sea area

HELCOM Green Team subgroupunder MARITIME WG

• 1st face-to-face meeting on Donsö (Sweden) – 05.09.2017• Need for coordination with other relevant activities such as the European Sustainable Shipping Forum (ESSF) and engagement with Russian contacts• Revision of the guidelines for

the HELCOM Recommendation28E/13 (2007)

• EU and other research and projects funding

HELCOM Green Team

Green Team activities• Port of Gothenburg - work regarding indices, including both the

Environmental Ship Index (ESI) and Clean Shipping Index (CSI)• Finnish Maritime Cluster as a part of ZVT - lead the work on Green

Team reporting mechanism and method• Swedish Maritime Administration – revision of the HELCOM

Recommendation 28E/13• HELCOM – report on Alternative Fuels for Shipping in the Baltic Sea

Region• Green Team-2 meeting – Turku, 17 May, 2018• Green Team meeting on the margins of Donsö Ship Meet (DSM19), 3-

4 September 2019.

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Green Team reporting mechanism and method

• Reporting mechanism further developed from the ZVT method• The reported issues and outcomes arranged into themes:

• Vessel (technology and design)• Infrastructure (port development, alternative fuels infrastructure and fuel

supply• Finance (Financing, risk sharing, guarantees, co-funding and incentives to

support investments)• Regulation (new and updates)• R&D (new identified areas and required pilots)

• Method: Traffic light approach• Red –when obstacles arise and actions are needed from the HELCOM co-

operation (either industry, administrations and/or academia)• Yellow –when guidance is required from the HELCOM co-operation• Green –when the issue can be solved and results are shared

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• Update of the HELCOM Recommendation on economic incentives (28E/13) – Russia: ecological port dues– EU: ongoing evaluation of the EU framework for taxation of

energy products and electricity; EIB’s Green Shipping Guarantee Program

– Germany: LNG funding program by the German Government

– Finland: proposal for a green ship concept in the ongoing revision of the EU´s Port Reception Facilities Directive (2000/59/EC).

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Green Team activities

Contents:• EU and HELCOM regulations• Alternative fuels / technologies• LNG for maritime transport• International projects in the BSR • Overview of National Policy Frameworks (NPF)• Country / port developments and incentives in the BSR • EnviSuM project

HELCOM reportObjective: to provide an overview of the recent developmentsin use of alternative fuels by the Baltic Sea countries, with thefocus on liquefied natural gas (LNG), to highlight existing andongoing programs and incentives on a country / port level andto indicate long term trends according to available data

Small scale LNG Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Region

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Small scale LNG Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Region

Forerunners:• Finland• Sweden• Denmark• Germany

National policy framework, developments and incentives

Thank you!

Alexey.Bakhtov@helcom.fi