Requirements

Scope
The Green Award Requirements address issues related to quality, safety, environment and technical areas related to the ship and the ship manager's office. The requirements also pay extra attention to crew elements. The most recent update of the Green Award requirements covers for example Monitoring of Ship Exhaust Emissions, Marpol NOx emission limits, ECDIS and Hot Work procedures.


Examples of requirements related to safety:

• Navigation
• Cargo operations, bunkering
• Maintenance
• Condition Assessment Program
• Training of the crew
• Mooring wire maintenance
• Gas monitoring double hull
• Quality management


Examples of requirements related to environment:

• Exhaust emissions
• Water ballast
• Anti-fouling
• Ship breaking
• Navigation in ‘sensitive areas’
• Waste management


Composition
The Green award requirements consist of three parts:

1. Basic requirements (statutory elements related to ISM, MARPOL)
2. Ranking requirements (Weighted items, minimum % to be attained)
3. Visual inspection (seaworthiness, good housekeeping)

Development
Green Award develops and maintains the requirements in house and the Board of Experts keeps the requirements under review to ensure they keep pace with developments in the industry and regulatory worlds and retain their relevance. An example is the development of a 'blue label', an additional award that won’t affect a “normal” Green Award certificate, but will be issued in addition to it to show the extra effort put in by ship owners and managers and to motivate the industry to comply. The Blue Label will be issued to ships when the obtained ranking scores meet particular exhaust emission requirements that go beyond international regulations.