Dashboard with target and base year
Can build the facility's emissions dashboard with the target, the base year and the source document for each number.
Deliverable: dashboard with the evidence alongsideOcto for port emissions
An emissions target has a year and a baseline. Octo helps measure the path to it.
In 2023 the IMO adopted the strategy that seeks net-zero emissions from shipping by or around 2050, with checkpoints in 2030 and 2040. In Brazil, ANTAQ published the first greenhouse gas inventory for the waterway sector, and ports report monthly inventories and shore power. Octo can help your team keep the emissions dashboard with the target, the base year and the evidence for each number.
IMONet zeroby or around 2050
203020 to 30%fewer emissions than in 2008
204070 to 80%fewer emissions than in 2008
Sources9listed at the end of the page
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What Octo does with emissions.
Four possible deliverables. The inventory and the target remain with the environmental team.
Separate scopes
Can break emissions down by GHG Protocol scopes 1, 2 and 3, as ports that publish their plans do.
Deliverable: table by scope for reviewShore power by berth
Can track, berth by berth, where there is a shore power connection, how many ships use it and how much energy was delivered.
Deliverable: per-berth table with the evidence for each connectionData from companies in the port
Can gather, each period, the emissions data that lessees and service providers send, with the document attached.
Deliverable: periodic collection with outstanding items by company
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Eight arms, one emissions dashboard.
The same Octo cycle, applied to this topic. Each arm has a narrow role; the people who approve and sign are on your team.
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Discovery
Reads what already exists
Inventory, targets, energy bills and the data the port's companies already send.
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Data
Organizes by scope
Each emission source in its scope, with its unit and base year. Without that, the target has nothing to compare against.
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Security
Respects the company's data
Data from lessees and service providers stays in the environment the team approves.
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Architecture
Picks the format
Spreadsheet, database or dashboard, matching how the team already works.
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Development
Builds the dashboard
Targets, numbers, evidence and outstanding items per company.
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Review
Checks with the person in charge
The environmental team reviews the dashboard before it counts.
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Release
Delivers with your OK
The dashboard goes wherever the team says.
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Documentation
Records the version
Which methodology and which base year were used.
Octo does not produce an official inventory or certify emissions. The inventory and the target belong to your team, and verification belongs to whoever your company hires.
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Each reference, its source.
Emissions targets and instruments with a published source. The official text remains the reference.
| Reference | Publisher | What it says |
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| 2023 Strategy on GHG | IMO, MEPC 80 | Net zero by or around 2050; checkpoints in 2030 and 2040 |
| MARPOL Annex VI | IMO | In force since May 19, 2005; SOx, NOx, ozone, VOCs, incineration and carbon intensity |
| Waterway sector inventory | ANTAQ | Cabotage and inland navigation, 2021 to 2023 |
| Sustainability assessment | MPor | 2024 questionnaire, self-reported answers |
| Environmental Ship Index (ESI) | IAPH | Voluntary rating of the ship's NOx and SOx |
| Emission scopes | GHG Protocol, used by ports | Scopes 1, 2 and 3 |
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From request to routine.
Three steps. Each one only makes sense once the previous one has shown results on your team.
A proposal, not a promise
Dashboard of what already exists
Octo organizes the numbers the team already has, with the origin of each one.
- Target and base year
- Evidence per number
Collection from companies
Data from lessees and service providers now arrives in one place.
- Periodic request
- Outstanding items by company
Target tracking
The dashboard shows the distance to the target each period.
- Breakdown by scope
- Shore power by berth
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Confirmed by source.
Each point below has a source published by the responsible agency, the IMO or the port authority cited. Reports to the MPor Seal are self-reported. The sources are in the next section.
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points with a published source, each with its reference alongside.
- ConfirmedIMO strategy
- In July 2023, at MEPC 80, the IMO adopted the 2023 Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships, with the target of net-zero emissions by or around 2050.Source: IMO, 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships
- ConfirmedCheckpoints
- Reduce total annual emissions by at least 20%, striving for 30%, by 2030, and by at least 70%, striving for 80%, by 2040, both compared with 2008. Reduce carbon intensity by at least 40% by 2030, compared with 2008, and reach at least 5%, striving for 10%, of zero or near-zero emission energy by 2030.Source: IMO, 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships
- ConfirmedMARPOL Annex VI
- Annex VI entered into force on May 19, 2005, and covers sulfur and nitrogen oxides, ozone-depleting substances, volatile organic compounds, shipboard incineration and carbon intensity.Source: IMO, Decarbonization and clean air in shipping
- ConfirmedANTAQ inventory
- ANTAQ published the first greenhouse gas inventory for the waterway sector, with emissions from coastal and inland navigation from 2021 to 2023.Source: ANTAQ, waterway sector GHG inventory
- ConfirmedMPor assessment
- In the Ministry of Ports and Airports questionnaire with ATP, from October and November 2024, 70.5% of the port sector companies that responded had an emissions inventory; among organized port administrations, 56.25%. These are self-reported answers from a sample.Source: MPor, sustainability assessment
- ConfirmedShore power in Brazil
- One port authority reported installing, with the union and five tugboat companies, a shore power connection for tugboats; another reported monthly greenhouse gas inventories, Scopes 1 and 2, under the Brazilian GHG Protocol. These are self-reported accounts from the port authority to the Ministry of Ports and Airports on the Sustainability Seal form.Source: MPor, Sustainability Seal reports
- ConfirmedShore power abroad
- Rotterdam's shore power plan notes that the European AFIR and FuelEU rules make shore power supply and use mandatory in 2030 for container, cruise and passenger ships. Hamburg publishes the goal of equipping all main berths by 2030, with full coverage by 2040, with energy from renewable sources.Source: Port of Rotterdam, Shore Power Strategy 2025-2035; Hamburg Port Authority, shore power
- ConfirmedScopes
- Rotterdam's climate transition plan reports emissions by GHG Protocol scopes 1, 2 and 3.Source: Port of Rotterdam, Climate Transition Plan
- ConfirmedESI
- The Environmental Ship Index (ESI) is a voluntary IAPH tool that rates, by formula, a ship's nitrogen and sulfur oxide emissions.Source: IAPH, World Ports Sustainability Program, ESI
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What Octo does and what stays with you.
Octo prepares everything, but does not sign. The document of record stays with whoever is accountable for it.
Octo prepares
Gathers, calculates, organizes and produces the documents: spreadsheets, reports, dashboards and drafts.
Deliverable: material ready for reviewYour team reviews
The licensed professional reviews what Octo delivered before signing. If something doesn't add up, it goes back to Octo with the correction.
Step: review by whoever signsWho signs
Octo does not sign. Designs, technical reports, ART/RRT, accountability reports and any official document are still signed by the licensed professional at the company or agency: here, the professional of record and the port authority.
Signature: professional of record and port authority
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Sources.
Pages from the IMO, ANTAQ and the Ministry of Ports and Airports, documents published by the ports of Rotterdam and Hamburg and the ESI page at IAPH. Accessed October 31, 2026.
- IMO: 2023 Strategy on GHGMEPC 80, 2030, 2040 and 2050 targets
- IMO: MARPOL Annex VIIn force since May 19, 2005
- ANTAQ: waterway sector GHG inventoryCabotage and inland navigation, 2021 to 2023
- MPor: sustainability assessment2024 questionnaire, self-reported answers
- MPor: Sustainability Seal reportsSelf-reported accounts from the port authorities (2025)
- Port of Rotterdam: Shore Power Strategy 2025-2035AFIR and FuelEU, shore power in 2030
- Port of Rotterdam: Climate Transition PlanScopes 1, 2 and 3
- Hamburg Port Authority: shore powerBerths by 2030, full coverage by 2040
- IAPH: Environmental Ship IndexVoluntary rating of NOx and SOx
The target, with the path to it measured.
The assessment starts with the emissions numbers your team already has, without changing anything. You get a proposal for what can be organized and decide with it in hand.