Avin International adds tanker fleet to Ahti pool

Greek shipping firm Avin International has added its fleet of 35 conventionally-fuelled oil and chemical tankers to a FuelEU Maritime pooling arrangement managed by Finnish service provider Ahti.

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Ahti operates a third-party platform that manages FuelEU pooling arrangements and currently includes around 270 vessels.

Under this arrangement, ships that are over compliant towards GHG reduction targets can sell their compliance surpluses to underperforming vessels within the same pool to offset compliance shortfalls and avoid penalties.

“The [Ahti] Pool complements our own initiatives with a structured, market-aligned mechanism for managing FuelEU Maritime requirements across the fleet, enhancing our ability to deliver on our long-term environmental commitments,” Avin International chief executive Pavlos Xagoraris said.

Fuel suppliers such as Neste and ScanOcean have also joined the platform, enabling their customers to generate compliance surpluses by bunkering physical biofuels and sell these surpluses to vessels participating in Ahti’s pool.

By Konica Bhatt

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