News / MEPC 80: China proposes plan to allow emissions data to be altered

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China has called on the IMO to allow authorities to retroactively change emissions data already submitted.

China’s IMO submission, MEPC 80/6/4, takes aim at the IMO’s fuel consumption database, Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS), and calls upon the MEPC committee to allow the modification of already-submitted figures.

China claimed: “…data can only be entered manually in the user interface … which could lead to errors, and slow network speed often results in repeated submission; however, the module has no modification function ...