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MeteoGroup Maritim und die Green Award Foundation arbeiten zusammen, um Umweltschutz und höchste Sicherheit bei Reedereien zu fördern. Die Green Award Foundation zertifiziert Schiffe, die hohe Sicherheits- und Umweltstandards einhalten. Mit SPOS bietet MeteoGroup Maritim ein Schiffsrouting-System, das Wettervorhersagen berücksichtigt, um Schiffsrouten optimal planen. So können Schiffe möglichst energiesparend und sicher die Meere befahren. Schiffe, die von der Green Award Foundation zertifiziert wurden, erhalten jetzt einen Rabatt auf SPOS.

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Green Award and MeteoGroup Maritime Join Forces

19.12.2011 The Green Award Foundation and MeteoGroup Maritime have signed an agreement to work together to incentivise ship owners with high safety and environmental standards and to eliminate substandard shipping from the world’s oceans. Green Award Managing Director Jan Fransen and MeteoGroup Maritime CEO Peter Stoter signed the agreement in December 2011.

Launched in 1994, Green Award certifies ships that are extra clean and extra safe. Green Award works with partners who offer financial and non-financial benefits to certified ships thereby rewarding high safety and environmental standards in shipping. The scheme makes above standard ship operations economically more attractive and is open to oil tankers and dry bulk carriers from 20,000 DWT and upwards, LNG carriers and inland navigation vessels.

Green Award’s partnership with the specialist maritime division of Europe’s leading weather forecasting company, MeteoGroup, is mutually beneficial for the organisations’ clients. The benefits of SPOS, MeteoGroup Maritime’s market-leading weather routing service for shipping, is in line with the objectives of the Green Award certification, namely a safe and environmentally friendly international shipping industry. Under the new agreement, MeteoGroup Maritime will reward any ship that has passed the stringent Green Award certification process with a reduction in annual rates.

It’s now widely accepted that clean, safe shipping is in the interests of everyone involved in the shipping industry and the Green Award Foundation currently has over 40 partners in twelve countries.  The partners – ports and marine service providers – offer lower rates and other benefits to over 200 certified sea-going vessels.  Mr Stoter and Mr Fransen said they hoped that the new partnership would increase the advantages to ship owners and managers who operate above required compliance standards.

“Green Award is the only global, independent, not-for-profit quality assurance organisation that works by offering incentives to quality owners and vessels,” Mr Fransen said. “By choosing partners like MeteoGroup Maritime, we are able to offer stakeholders of both organisations even greater incentives to pursue higher quality.”

Mr Stoter agreed, saying: “Worldwide trade is heavily reliant on the international shipping industry and it is in the interest of all parties to find the safest and most efficient way to transport goods from port to port. MeteoGroup provides the maritime industry with the most accurate and reliable maritime weather forecasts on the market and SPOS is used to optimise ship routing around the globe. SPOS ensures vessels navigate the globe safely and efficiently, reducing fuel consumption and contributing to a clean environment.”
 
For more information please contact:
Bern Olthoff, MeteoGroup Maritime +31 317 399800, Olthoff@meteogroup.com, www.meteogroup.com / www.SPOS.eu

Jan Fransen, Green Award Foundation +21 102 170200, management@greenaward.org, www.greenaward.org

About MeteoGroup

MeteoGroup is Europe’s largest private sector weather business with a worldwide customer base and operations in ten European countries and the USA as well as representatives in the Middle East and Far East. MeteoGroup is a full-service weather business supplying tailored products to professional, media and consumer markets. Founded in 1986, the company has an unrivalled reputation for quality and innovation in weather forecasting.  

Expert meteorologists provide forecasts, support, monitoring and consultancy services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In addition, a dedicated weather modelling team continuously develop MeteoGroup’s in-house systems and forecasting techniques.

The Group is owned by the Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland.  Offices are located in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA.

About Green Award Foundation

The Green Award Foundation is a neutral, independent foundation, established in 1994, when the foundation introduced a certification scheme for oil tankers, later expanded to include dry bulk carriers and, since recently, LNG vessels and inland navigation barges. Currently there are 226 sea-going and 79 inland navigation vessels certified.
 
Green Award bestows international recognition on extra clean, extra safe seagoing vessels, which are more than wel-come in any seaport. As a totally independent and neutral, non-profit organisation, Green Award wants to create market preference for quality tonnage resulting in less incidents and accidents that can jeopardize the (marine) environment.  The certification procedure consists of an office audit and an audit of each individual ship applying for certification. Amongst many others, the assessment focuses on crew, operational, environmental and managerial elements.

At ports in Belgium, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Oman, New Zealand, Portugal and South Africa, the Green Award vessels receive a considerable reduction on port dues. Several incentive providers, government institu-tions as well as private companies, grant savings to a vessel with a Green Award certificate, which subject to annual verification, is valid for three years.