Summary

The Green Marine Environmental Program is an action plan that addresses nine major environmental issues identified by the marine industry :

Aquatic invasive species

Air emissions : SO_x and NO_x

Greenhouse gases

Cargo residues

Oily waters

Community impacts (noise, dust, odours and luminous pollution)

Environmental leadership

Waste Management

Prevention of spills and leakages

The program is made up of 4 basic steps:

1- Evaluation process

Green Marine requires participants to adopt practices and technologies that will have a direct impact on the ground.
The progress that participants make in this respect is evaluated with the help of performance indicators, which are
defined on a scale ranging from one to five based on the following criteria:

The Green Marine Environmental Program encourages participants to go beyond regulatory compliance and implement a process of continuous environmental improvement that will lead to excellence and leadership.

Download the 2012 summary of the program's performance indicators:
Shipowners
Ports, terminals & shipyards

To view the complete self-evaluation guides, please click HERE.

Download the 2013 summary of the program's performance indicators (the complete self-evaluation guide will be available in the Fall 2013)

Shipowners
Ports, terminals & shipyards

2 - External verification

Participants' results are subject to an external audit every two years, during which an independent third party will visit their premises to check their facilities and procedures, and verify the accuracy of the data used to compile their results.

List of accredited verifiers

3 - Publication of results

Participants’ individual results - as well as the global results attained by the industry as a whole - are published on a yearly basis in Green Marine's annual report. Individual results are also available via an interactive map on Green Marine’s website.

4 - Certification

During their first year in the program, participants receive a logo indicating that their Green Marine certification is “in progress,” which they can use to publicize their commitment to the Green Marine initiative. Participants who have been in the program for more than a year receive a «certified« logo, which is awarded during a certification ceremony held during Green Marine's annual conference.