First green passport for CMAL

The passenger and vehicle ferry Canna has become the first ship in Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd’s fleet to be issued with a Lloyd?s Register ‘Green Passport’. This follows a training workshop for CMAL staff and a comprehensive audit process managed by LR.

The Green Passport – officially termed an Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) – will accompany the ship throughout its operational life and will be reviewed by a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group on an annual basis. Every five years the IHM will be renewed and re-certified and, at the end of the ship’s life, it will help a ship recycling yard to formulate a safe and environmentally friendly way of decommissioning the ship.

The Canna is one of the first ships in the world to receive an IHM in accordance with the requirements of a new Ship Recycling Convention, following adoption by international states in May this year. It will be some years before the Convention is ratified and enters into force, so CMAL are operating in advance of regulatory requirements.

All 30 ships in the CMAL fleet serving the Clyde and Hebrides ferry services in the west of Scotland will be put through the auditing process to secure their Green Passports, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to safeguarding the environment as well as early compliance with the new Convention.

Guy Platten, Managing Director of CMAL, said: “We are constantly looking for new ways to address environmental issues, whether it?s looking at alternative fuels for the ferries of the future or how best to recycle ferries safely at the end of their operational life. The Green Passport is a great example of proactively working with industry colleagues to take action now to help assure environmental protection in the future.”

Jim Heath, Lloyd?s Register?s Green Passport Product Manager commented: “We are looking to support companies in helping them comply with regulation and it is good, with CMAL, to be working with a company at the forefront of sustainable shipping operations. In this case they have moved in advance of regulation and they are very much in the vanguard of companies looking to move beyond compliance.”