Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 02/2025
EU ETS: twelve months into the regulation
Hamburg-based OceanScore has highlighted that the clock is ticking down towards the first deadline for submission by shipping companies of monitoring, reporting, verification (MRV) reports in March that will determine the scale of EU Allowances (EUAs) to be surrendered in September. A key component of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), which affects owners and operators with ships on trades within or to/from the trading bloc, the cost of the EUAs remains a major uncertainty. There are nine more months before owners will know the financial cost of the ETS to shipping, first introduced in January 2024....