RightShip, AUSMEPA to develop Maritime Emissions Portal

RightShip said that it is currently working with AUSMEPA to deliver a prototype Maritime Emissions Portal (MEP) with the assistance from Rio Tinto  to identify a suitable trial port within their network.

In 2016 this project was granted a $250,000 grant from Google Impact Challenge and its aim is to facilitate operators track vessels’ emission in ports, giving the ability to track more 70,000 vessels in real time.

AIS’s RightShip’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rating and Criteria Air Pollutant will provide the estimations in which the data in the portal will be based.

After conducting all the necessary preparatory work, MEP is now fit to be tested. For this to happen two Canadian ports have declared interest: Port Metro Vancouver and the Port of Prince Rupert.

After being tested, AUSMPERA plans to use MEP in Australia at first and the around the world.

Speaking at Google’s Australia offices, the CEO of RightShip, Warwick Norman, said that until now a similar tool hasn’t been used.

He then continued by describing the way that this tool will work.

Namely, MEP will exploit information provided by satellite to track a vessel from the sea. After that it will match the data it gathered with GHG data to see how much CO2 a specific vessel emits. Lastly, after having collected all the information, MEP will compare it with the emissions of other vessels in the port.