At the Conference to Propagate Circulars and Resolutions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) organized by the Vietnam Maritime Administration, reducing greenhouse gas emissions was one of the critical contents mentioned.
Since 2011, IMO has adopted the first series of international mandatory measures to improve the energy efficiency of ships, make additional adjustments, and apply the initial GHG Strategy (strategy on reducing emissions greenhouse gases from ships) of the IMO, as well as amending the 2023 GHG Strategy to match the current situation.
In Vietnam, the Vietnam Maritime Administration said that Vietnam has a green energy transition roadmap for the transportation industry. Implementing energy transition used on ships, and at ports, converting port development according to green port criteria... has become the task of seaports, ship owners, and shipping businesses.
According to a representative of Vietnam Maritime Corporation (VIMC), from January 1, 2020, this enterprise's ships have moved to using fuel with a sulfur content not exceeding 0.5%, altering for fuel with a sulfur content of 3.5%.
To do this, ships must have their fuel tanks cleaned following IMO instructions. In the coming time, VIMC is researching the installation of scrubber gas cleaning systems to use traditional fuel with 3.5% sulfur content to ensure economic efficiency.
Over the past time, in implementing Decision 876/QD-TTg approving the action program on green energy transition and reducing carbon and methane emissions of the Transport sector, the Maritime Administration is developing a submission for promulgation baseline for green port criteria. The standard is expected to create a new way of thinking in seaport operations and exploitation.
According to the Action Program on green energy conversion and reducing carbon and methane emissions of the Transport sector, in the period 2022 - 2030, the program encourages converting vehicles and equipment to use electricity and green energy or have equivalent measures at new investment ports, additional investments, and existing ports. The period 2031 - 2050 will have a more specific transformation towards the goal that from 2050, all vehicles and equipment at ports and maritime signaling devices will use electricity, green energy, or similar measures.