POLICY STATEMENT:

VS TANKERS aspires and aims to ensure that it operates in an environmentally responsible manner, with a view to reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint, and to do so in a way that not only protects the environment but that also prevents or reduces the risks of the occurrence of environmental incidents, spillages, pollution, and disasters.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES:

VS TANKERS seeks to achieve this by, focusing on safety and efficiency, through inter alia:

  • Compliance with international best practices and applicable international environmental & safety regulations, conventions, and standards related to waste management and oil and marine pollution;
  • Adopting a zero-tolerance policy and attitude towards any intentional and unlawful disposal or discharge of oil, toxic substances, or other serious pollutants at sea.
  • Minimizing adverse impacts on the environment, by using energy-efficient technologies, efficient waste management measures, avoiding the use of ozone-depleting and other toxic substances;
  • Routinely optimizing machinery and equipment maintenance and conducting regular assessments and benchmarking of energy performances across all our vessels;
  • Reducing its carbon footprint and minimizing the impact on air and water pollution, through the consumption of high-quality IMO compliant fuels and utilization of modern energy-efficient technologies on all its vessels.
  • Adopting and promoting an environmental conscience