Pending the issue of more stringent measures by international institutions, Port Revel considers that the time has come to help raise the awareness of mariners responsible for manoeuvring large ships in harbour areas by providing them with ways of reducing fuel consumption and consequently CO₂and dust emissions in sensitive environments.

With this “Clean Shiphandling” principle in mind, Port Revel has equipped two of its eleven ships with sensors for measuring total energy consumption during a given shiphandling operation. Trainees are thus challenged to carry out the operation in question with a target level of consumption (and hence atmospheric emissions) that is fixed in advance by the Centre’s instructors, who have themselves already faced the same challenge.

We hope this will give a new incentive to all seafarers to contribute to “Green Shiphandling”.

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