FuelEU Maritime Compliance Practitioner Training Course

Overview

FuelEU Maritime Compliance Practitioner Training Course is a one-week practitioner course for shipping compliance, fleet, operations, legal, sustainability, and verification teams, who leave with a FuelEU Maritime Compliance Action Plan. The course connects scope, responsibility, lifecycle GHG intensity, monitoring evidence, fuel choices, on-shore power, compliance balances, flexibility options, penalties, and verification. Agile Leaders Training Center develops FuelEU Maritime compliance practice.

Who Should Attend

• Teams responsible for shipping-company regulatory compliance and assurance
• Functions responsible for fleet performance and voyage decisions
• People responsible for marine fuel procurement and emissions evidence
• Teams responsible for maritime legal, contractual, and risk controls
• Functions responsible for sustainability data and verifier coordination

The course assumes participants work with vessel, voyage, fuel, emissions, compliance, or verification records; it leaves out general shipping administration and introductory climate policy.

Departments and Industries

The course supports FuelEU Maritime decisions across shipping, ports, fuel supply, verification, logistics, and marine professional services.

• Fleet operations and technical management functions
• Compliance, legal, risk, and assurance teams
• Sustainability, emissions-data, and reporting functions
• Marine fuel procurement and commercial teams
• Ports, terminals, verification, and maritime advisory services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Analyze FuelEU Maritime scope and company responsibility.
• Apply lifecycle GHG intensity calculation logic.
• Build monitoring, evidence, and verification controls.
• Compare fuel, RFNBO, and on-shore power options.
• Evaluate banking, borrowing, pooling, and penalty effects.
• Create a FuelEU Maritime Compliance Action Plan.

Course Agenda

Day 1: Map Regulatory Scope

• Regulation (EU) 2023/1805 Scope and Applicability Map
• ISM Company Responsibility and Accountability Matrix
• Voyage, Port Call, and Energy Boundary Checklist
• FuelEU Maritime Requirements Register
• Compliance Calendar and Responsibility Assignment Chart

Day 2: Calculate GHG Intensity

• Well-to-Wake GHG Intensity Calculation Model
• Fuel and Energy Consumption Data Reconciliation Sheet
• Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Eligibility Screen
• RFNBO Contribution and Incentive Assessment
• Annual Compliance Balance Calculation Workbook

Day 3: Control Monitoring and Verification

• FuelEU Maritime Monitoring Plan Structure
• Source Data and Evidence Control Matrix
• Data Gap and Correction Method Log
• Verifier Readiness and Findings Tracker
• FuelEU Document of Compliance Evidence File

Day 4: Manage Operational Compliance

• On-Shore Power and Zero-Emission Technology Decision Tree
• Banking and Borrowing Scenario Model
• Fleet Pooling Allocation and Agreement Matrix
• FuelEU Penalty Exposure Estimator
• Charterparty and Fuel-Supply Responsibility Review

Day 5: Practice FuelEU Compliance

• Exercise: Classify Ships, Voyages, and Port Calls
• Exercise: Calculate a Vessel GHG Intensity Position
• Exercise: Assemble Monitoring and Verification Evidence
• Exercise: Compare Fuel and Flexibility Scenarios
• Capstone Exercise: Complete the FuelEU Maritime Compliance Action Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities based on cargo shipping, passenger operations, port calls, and fleet compliance decisions.

• Suggested activity: map regulatory scope, company responsibility, data owners, and reporting controls.
• Suggested activity: reconcile fuel evidence and calculate a vessel compliance balance.
• Suggested activity: compare banking, borrowing, pooling, fuel, and on-shore power choices.
• Suggested activity: compile a verifier-ready compliance action plan with responsibilities and corrective actions.

FAQs

Who suits FuelEU Maritime compliance practitioner training?

FuelEU Maritime compliance training suits professionals who manage vessels, fuels, emissions data, legal duties, assurance, or verification and can work with operational and compliance records.

How does FuelEU Maritime training differ from general emissions trading training?

FuelEU Maritime training addresses lifecycle fuel GHG intensity, on-shore power, compliance balances, flexibility, verification, and ship documentation rather than general allowance-market trading.

What is a FuelEU Maritime compliance balance?

A FuelEU Maritime compliance balance expresses whether a ship meets or misses the applicable annual GHG-intensity target and supports decisions on permitted flexibility and penalties.

How do banking, borrowing, and pooling work under FuelEU Maritime?

Banking carries eligible surplus forward, borrowing uses a limited future surplus, and pooling combines vessel positions under regulated conditions and recorded agreements.

What evidence supports FuelEU Maritime verification?

FuelEU Maritime verification relies on controlled fuel, energy, voyage, port-call, emissions-factor, calculation, monitoring, correction, and responsibility records that trace reported values to source evidence.

Conclusion

Participants take back a FuelEU Maritime Compliance Action Plan linking scope, responsibilities, calculations, monitoring, evidence, operational choices, flexibility, penalties, and verification. It turns regulatory requirements into assigned controls and decision points. The plan supports coordinated action across fleet, compliance, fuel, legal, sustainability, finance, and assurance teams.