The new emission standards for ships can be achieved implementing the following solutions:

• Low sulfur fuel and NOx aftertreatment
• Heavy fuel and both NOx and SOx aftertreatment
• LNG
• Other fuels, like methanol, electrification, etc.

But how will authorities make sure that correct fuel or proper aftertreatment are being used? The SCIPPER Project seeks to answer this major question addressing the overall need for:

• Compliance check of environmental regulations.
• More evidence on monitoring possibilities for low sulphur levels, new pollutants, as well as implications of non-compliant ships to air pollution

SCIPPER's main objectives are as follows: 

• To provide evidence on the performance and capacity of different techniques for shipping emissions monitoring and regulations’ enforcement
• To assess the impacts of shipping emissions on air quality, under different regulatory enforcement scenarios

SCIPPER objectives are achieved in five real-world experimental campaigns involving actual vessels and the largest ports in the EU. A mirror activity in Asia has been scheduled to validate results obtained in the EU.