At the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, China Classification Society (CCS) successfully completed the compliance verification on the energy efficiency existing ship index (EEXI) of Greek ship — LIBERTANGO, as well as the plan approval of the ship at the same time. The successful implementation of the EEXI verification and plan approval services marks the formal establishment of CCS EEXI index compliance verification and plan approval technical system.

During the implementation of the project, CCS Shanghai Rules & Research Institute immediately set up a team to actively communicate, coordinate and overcome various challenges. With the joint efforts of CCS Athens Branch, the ship parameters were comprehensively checked, and the EEXI verification and plan approval technical system was verified and optimized throughout the whole process based on the physical ship project. The system architecture goals involving a set of verification methods, technical documents and software tools were successfully attained, and thus laid a solid foundation for the subsequent comprehensive development of EEXI verification and plan approval services.

At the 76th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the control requirements for EEXI were established to control and reduce the carbon emission intensity from international shipping. As one of the most essential principles for global shipping industry emission control, the requirements directly affect the life cycle of existing ships. As always, CCS has continuously been participating in the research in response to the requirements of the upcoming EEXI Convention. As soon as IMO put forward the related concepts, CCS, as a response, would carry out the research on technologies and verification procedures, develop the supporting verification procedures and technical guidelines, set up the technology accreditation method, and complete service system based on the new rules.

CCS will continue to be rooted in the fertile soil for the vigorous development of China's shipbuilding industry. Taking full advantage of its integration ability and technological merits, CCS seeks to provide better services for industry customers in the development process of emission reduction technologies, such as low-carbon and zero-carbon new energy applications, the marine carbon capture, the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and the ship resistance reduction and energy saving, and make more positive contributions to the transformation and development of global green and low-carbon shipping.