Why this matters
What's happening with EU ETS Maritime and FuelEU Maritime, and why both reshape the cost calculus for every vessel calling at a European port.
A practical PDF guide for shipowners, fleet managers and DPAs navigating the year ahead. Both regulations in plain language, a month-by-month 2026 calendar, a working checklist, the six pitfalls we see most often, and how to prepare. No legal jargon, no marketing fluff.
What's happening with EU ETS Maritime and FuelEU Maritime, and why both reshape the cost calculus for every vessel calling at a European port.
Side-by-side comparison: scope, mechanism, coverage, phase-in, penalty, verification — for both EU ETS and FuelEU.
Year-by-year milestone schedule for both regulations through the end of the decade. Pin the dates that matter to your fleet calendar.
From January reporting prep through September surrender to December close-out. The dates that matter, in the order they hit.
Operational checklist across monitoring, verification, EUA procurement, FuelEU pooling, and internal communications.
The mistakes that cost owners the most money in the first 18 months of the regime — verifier-engagement timing, 50/100% confusion, surrender-date mishaps.
Five preparation tracks, with the partner technology (MG Energy, Blueday, Teknoton, Normec Verifavia) Ortech integrates for compliance + cost reduction.
How to engage Ortech Marine when you're ready to model exposure, plan a retrofit, or engage a verifier.
Plug your vessel's annual fuel consumption, fuel type and EU operations share into the live calculator — and see the cost projection through 2030 update in real time. No download needed.
Each claim, deadline and figure in the PDF guide is drawn from publicly accessible primary sources — EU legislation on EUR-Lex, official IMO documents, EEX market data, and accreditation-body registries. Click through and verify any number directly.
Every formula, emission factor, vessel-preset assumption and citation behind the EU ETS Cost Estimator is documented in CALCULATIONS-AND-SOURCES.md in the project folder — readable as plain text by your engineers, marketing team, or auditors.
Disclaimer: this guide and the calculator are educational reference tools. Verify all figures against your monitoring data and your accredited verifier before financial or operational planning.