Expanding green reporting

With this ambition in mind, Jon Olav Stedje, port operations/marketing manager at Flåm Port has been appointed as an ambassador to represent the Environmental Port Index (EPI) to a broader international market.

Even Husby, EPI director, said: “Jon Olav has a wide experience and an international network in the cruise and maritime industry. He is also educated in sales and marketing and is therefore a natural choice as an ambassador for our development and international extension.”

Stedje commented: “Hopefully with me onboard the company will develop and expand to be a solution for many ports around the globe. It is also important that EPI will be a trustworthy, sophisticated, motivating, and easy to use reporting tool for the ship operators.”

Already established in Norway

EPI was developed by several Norwegian ports, supported by DNV, and is already established in 16 Norwegian cruise ports.

The simple to use reporting tool enables ports to collect environmental accounting reports from visiting ships. The data is made available in an online portal showing details per ship as well as aggregated environmental data for all ship calls. This process is supported by DNV.

One of the outputs from the EPI portal is an EPI score per port call giving an indicator of the ship’s environmental performance while at quay. The EPI score may be linked to an incentive system, honouring the good performers, and increasing the cost for persistent polluters.

For the ship owner the online reporting tool gives an overview of all port visits, a good environmental accounting report and a good understanding of how each ship performs. It will in general be beneficial for ship owners to report in order to receive benefit from the incentive system.