Hosted by HAROPA PORT, the IAPH Environmental Ship Index (ESI) Advisory Group met in Le Havre last week. Thirteen experts, including chairman Bruce Anderson (Starcrest), and members from the ports of Amsterdam, Antwerp-Bruges, Hamburg, HAROPA, Los Angeles, Long Beach as well as the ESI administration (Green Award Foundation) and IAPH had a fruitful discussion on the future development of ESI (ESI 2.0), with the assistance of Panthalassa, a consultant company which IAPH has contracted this work to. The discussed details, which will raise the bar for shipping, will be worked out into a proposal for discussion at the ESI Stakeholder Assembly in Barcelona on 1 December. The current target date of the launch of ESI 2.0 is set to 1 January 2025. This will be preceded by a series of consultation and promotional activities while the ships collect and register the data necessary for the new version of ESI scores throughout 2024. The next ESI Advisory Group meeting will be held on 26 and 27 February 2024, in London.
