The Green Passport

Gill Reynolds
Principal Environmental Specialist
Lloyd’s Register
Background
• Late 1970’s-early 1980’s ship scrapping industry shifted to beaches of SE Asia

• Little awareness/acknowledgement of working conditions & environmental pollution

• Concerted campaign by environmental groups to bring ship scrapping

practices to attention of developed countries & to target owners
sending ships for scrap

• Problems for owners scrapping ships continually being reported in media (Danish
Passenger ferry, Riki; French aircraft carrier, Clemenceau, cruise ship, Norway)

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International response

• Industry initiated development of Industry Code of Practice on Ship

Recycling

• Industry guidance fed into IMO discussions; the resulting IMO Guidelines
on Ship Recycling (adopted December 2003)

• In parallel - ILO Guidelines on Safety & Health in Ship Breaking & Basel
Convention Environmentally Sound Management of Dismantling of Ships

• Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes

applied to ships

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IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling

• Adopted December 2003

• Voluntary guidelines

• Implications throughout ship

lifecycle

• Applicable to existing ships &

new builds

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IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling - Design & construction

• Ship design
• Design out/minimise use of hazardous
materials
• Design for recycling

• Construction
• Compilation & issue of inventory of
hazardous materials/Green Passport
• Audit yard, control of sub-contractors

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IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling – Through-life operation

• Maintain inventory of potentially

hazardous materials (Green
Passport)

• Procurement procedures to
control hazardous materials eg.
asbestos in components/
equipment

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IMO Guidelines on Ship Recycling – End of life

• Finalise hazardous materials

inventory/Green Passport

• Prepare ship for recycling

• Identify & use licensed

dismantling facilities capable
of dealing with hazardous

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Latest developments
• New legally binding Instrument on Ship Recycling agreed IMO MEPC,
July 2005 – for adoption 2008-2009
 
• New instrument to set out mandatory requirements governing:
• Ship design and construction, operation and maintenance, preparation
for recycling
• Requirements for recycling facilities
• Enforcement mechanisms
 
• Draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound
Recycling of Ships, March 2006

• Consistent, but additional aspects – prohibition/restriction of materials &

Technical Group

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Central concept: Green Passport

• LR focus (i) Implementation

• Development of Green Passport template, approval procedures &
checklists, client guidance material

• Expansion of basic IMO Green Passport framework to include:

Executive summary, scope for (optional) addition of more details;
additional sections on Electrical and Electronic items &
Constructional material

• Change of focus from Ozone Depleting Substances and Global

Warming Potential to refrigerants, fire-fighting media, blowing
agents

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Lloyd’s Register: electronic template
• Materials in ship’s structure & equipment (Part 1)
• 1A Asbestos
• 1B Paint
• 1C Plastic & rubber materials
• 1D Materials containing PCBs…
• 1E Refrigerants, fire-fighting media…
• 1F Chemicals in ship’s equipment or machinery
• 1G Electrical & Electronic equipment
• 1H Constructional materials
• 1J Other substances…
• 1K Tanks

• Mandatory fields: Item, location, approximate quantity

• Optional fields eg. manufacturer trade name, hazard type, system

• Drop down menus containing frequently used entries

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Approval & verification

• LR focus (ii): approving Green Passport

• Check items in inventory appear correct & complete

• Check compliance with IMO Guidelines
• Identify potential
additional hazards

• Verification survey

• Issue of Green Passport

certification

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The Lloyd’s Register Green Passport Process
Newbuild Existing Ships
• Owner contract with yard – specify Green
Passport & any hazardous materials to be • Owner contract with Lloyd’s Register
EXCLUDED
• Lloyd’s Register provide Green Passport
• Specify Green Passport on contract with template & guidance for completion
Lloyd’s Register (Form 2500)
• Owner prepares Green Passport & submits to
• Yard liaise with Lloyd’s Register site office & Lloyd’s Register for approval
supply information
• Office based approval of Green Passport
• Surveys/checks during build
• Verification survey (at DS/SS/ITSS)
• Lloyd’s Register issue Green Passport
documentation and certificate on completion
• Issue Green Passport documentation &
certificate

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The Lloyd’s Register Green Passport Process

Newbuild
Existing Ships
• Owner contract with yard – specify Green
Passport & any hazardous materials to be
EXCLUDED • Owner contract with Lloyd’s Register

• Specify Green Passport on contract with • Lloyd’s Register provide Green Passport
Lloyd’s Register (Form 2500) template & guidance for completion

• Yard liaise with Lloyd’s Register site office &
supply information. Compile Green Passport
using Lloyd’s Register electronic template
• Surveys/checks during build
• Issue Green Passport documentation and
certificate on completion
• Owner prepares Green Passport & submits to
Lloyd’s Register for approval
• Office based approval of Green Passport
• Verification survey (at DS/SS/ITSS)
• Issue Green Passport documentation &
certificate

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First Green Passport: Shell LNG Tanker, ‘Granatina’

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Lloyd’s Register’s Green Passport

Document of Compliance
with IMO Guidelines
on Ship Recycling

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Client list
• Shell Shipping and
Trading Company
• BP Shipping
• Bergesen Worldwide
Gas ASA
• Maersk Line Ltd
• Teekay Shipping
• Chevron LNG
Shipping Co Ltd
• Wallenius Lines AB

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Benefits to Owners
• Facilitates safer and more environmentally sound ship dismantling

• Formal summary of hazards, promotes better hazard management, enhancing

onboard safety & enabling better long term liability planning

• Assists financial planning through better awareness of changing value of assets

& onboard hazard liabilities

• Promotes better environmental awareness &

planning; provides measurable objectives for
ISO 14001 certified companies

• Enhances reputation

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Key points
• IMO Guidelines & Ship Recycling Convention generally consistent

• Additional aspects - excluded materials & Technical Group

• Central feature – Inventory of Hazardous Materials (Green Passport)

• Inventory designed to aid scrapping & help protect workers and

environment … but significant through life benefits
• Safety
• Environmental management
• Management of liability

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Key points contd…...

• Inventory should be compiled by yards (new ships); ship’s crew/

owner (existing ships) then independently verified

• Inventories/Green Passports issued by Lloyd’s Register can be cut

over & issued on behalf of relevant national administration when
becomes statutory requirement

• New build Inventory more accurate than existing ship - ensure all
new build contracts specify Hazardous Materials Inventory/Green
Passport

• Plan to provide existing ships with Hazardous Materials

Inventory/Green Passport at next major survey

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For more information, please contact:

Gill Reynolds
Lloyd’s Register
71 Fenchurch Street
London, EC3M 4BS

T +44 (0)20 7423 1854 The Lloyd’s Register Group works

E gill.reynolds@lr.org to enhance safety and approve
assets and systems at sea, on land
and in the air – because life
matters.

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