Environment

One of the biggest challenges we have to tackle in the 21st century is that if climate change. Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gases contribute to global warming and need to be reduced dramatically. Meanwhile, globalization has increased the need for trade and transportation of goods.
Compared to other means of transportation, like trains, airplanes and trucks, shipping emits the lowest amount of CO₂ per transported ton and kilometer.
Protection of the environment and prevention of pollution are of great importance to Laurin Maritime. The company complies in full with mandatory rules and regulations and is committed to being at the forefront of environmental performance. The company implements best available practices and is continuously investigating new possibilities to reduce the impact on the environment.

Reducing air emissions: the Energy Conservation Program
The UN’s international shipping arm, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), is working towards more stringent legislations on emissions from shipping. Laurin Maritime supports the IMO's work and considers it of high importance to find solutions to this global problem.

Laurin Maritime has launched a company specific Energy Conservation Program which contains procedures and policies which reduce energy consumption and air emissions. The company has established targets to reduce the average sulfur content in bunkered fuel every year.

The following is a selection of measures the company takes to reduce the air emissions and energy consumption from its operations:

• Reducing speed at all possible occasions
• Striving to purchase low-sulfur bunker fuel
• Installing Mewis Ducts to enhance speed efficiency
• Using weather routing software on all vessels to determine the most efficient and safest route
• Investing in frequency converters to optimize and reduce overcapacity
• Insulating the fuel tanks to reduce heat losses
• Reducing steam generation by modifying boilers and investing in smaller boilers
• Streamlining the main engine heating to save energy
• Tracing and correcting heat losses on steam lines and electrical equipment
• Polishing the propeller to increase efficiency

Oily water management
The limit for the oil content in bilge water that can be discharged is 15 parts per million (ppm). Laurin Maritime has retrofitted new highly efficient bilge water separators on all its vessels, which reduces the oil content to a level far below the set limit. On many vessels the ppm level of the discharged waste is below one ppm.