The € question: Are you ready to surrender your first EU allowances?
The countdown is on: By 30 September 2025, all shipowners with EU voyages must surrender their first batch of EU ETS allowances. But are you ready? Do you know what your carbon bill will be? Where to get allowances, and when? For many shipowners, the financial clock is ticking, yet the full cost remains off the radar.
The full storyThere are currently two suggested versions of how the maritime sector should be included in the EU ETS. We compare the two versions to demonstrate how each of them would the impact freight costs.
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Newly suggested EU ETS amendments have the potential to strongly impact charterers and freight rates. The commercial operator’s requirement to pay the final carbon cost is enforced and the inclusion of emissions from the shipping industry is accelerated and expanded.
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The EU ETS allowances have been traded above USD 100 every day since the start of February. At this level the carbon price could increase freight rates by 10-30%. We use four example voyages from the tanker segment to show how this carbon price could impact freight rates on intra EU voyages and on global EU voyages.
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