The EPI provides ship owners with the power to run leaner and cleaner vessels – saving costs, resources, and pollution – while staying ahead of the curve for any future shift in the sustainable practice requirements of the industry.
Optimised Operations
Through detailed yet easy to use reporting, the EPI allows ship owners to identify key areas where there is room to enhance operational efficiency, such as fuel consumption. This can add significant value, as EPI Reporting has shown that a midsize cruise ship can typically reduce CO2 emissions by up to 20% on average.
Corporate Social Responsibility
People’s eyes around the world are open wider than ever, and they are looking for businesses and industries to lead the way towards a sustainable and otherwise ethical future. As a truly global industry, our actions are seen and felt everywhere. With the EPI, ship owners can be seen to take measurable action against local pollution and to enhance the wellbeing of each port’s surrounding community.
Incentives and Levies
The EPI enables ship owners to stay on course as the industry increases its focus on building a more sustainable future. Specifically, ship owners will be able to take advantage of any financial incentives EPI ports choose to introduce for sustainable vessel operations, while avoiding potential new penalties for pollution.
The EPI provides port operators with the unique opportunity to harness insights that will not only allow them to deliver benefits directly within their business, but also to further support their local environment and economy.
Local Socio-Economic Benefits
By driving sustainable action among ship owners, the EPI allows port operators to bring a wide range of benefits to their communities. This includes improving health and wellbeing by driving down local air and water pollution, or supporting the economy by motivating ships to utilise mainland power. And as more insights are gathered and port operators better understand how ships contribute to local pollution, a path to greater benefits can be developed in the future.
Corporate Social Responsibility
A port has always been a heart around which a community could be built, bringing access to trade and far off destinations, and they will continue to shape our future. The EPI is a commitment to a port’s role in its community; to people’s health and wellbeing, to their surrounding natural resources and environment, to the prosperity of the local economy, and the potential for so much more.
Behind all the individual benefits to ship owners, port operators and other stakeholders that make the EPI so valuable to our industry’s future – the ultimate benefit of the Environmental Port Index is one that can be shared by every person on the planet.
Greener ports for a cleaner world.
