Emissions and omissions

Unifeeder vessel to trial synthetic natural gas as a ‘climate-neutral’ fuel for box ships

A Unifeeder-chartered vessel is to be used for the first trial of synthetic natural gas (SNG) fuel as a key part of the shipping industry’s quest to decarbonise shipping.
In 2017, the 1,036 teu feedermax Wes Amelie became the first containership in the world to be retrofitted with an LNG fuel system.
Engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions and the ship’s owner and manager, Wessels Marine, intend to demonstrate that SNG – produced from renewable electrical energy …

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Major changes programmed for logistics: threats or opportunities?

Environmental change is not the only key trend which will significantly shape business models, but it is important to look at coming change together to see how businesses will need to progress.
“The changes we know are coming are digitalisation, emissions reduction, constraints of labour and changing consumer behaviour driven by e-commerce,” said Frank Verhoeven, chief executive of Vos Logistics.
“The questions then are how will they affect us; when; are they …

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DHL publishes its white paper on sustainable fuels for logistics

DHL has published a comprehensive white paper on sustainable fuels for logistics. And, with the new EC president planning a ‘Green Deal’, which will see transport emissions need to be cut by 90% in the next 30 years, it comes at a useful juncture. The paper explores the benefits of “alternative fuels”, although it notes that electric is “the technology choice of the transport sector” but is currently restricted to …

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Users and polluters will pay in drive towards major cut in transport emissions

The transport sector will be forced to significantly cut emissions following the election of future European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
She has made a Green Deal the platform of her presidency.
But while there will be inevitable cost hikes and significant change, there are also opportunities – or commercial imperatives.
Transport accounts for 25% of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, and it needs to reduce those by 90% by 2050.
“It’s not about …

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New guide to help shippers lower transport emissions at procurement stage

Shippers have been offered a “toolbox” to help them gauge and reduce transport emissions in the freight procurement stage – sending “a message” to the transport industry. 
Smart Freight Centre and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have released guidelines to help freight buyers reduce the greenhouse gas emissions  in their supply chains. 
Transporting goods around the world generates 8% of global CO2, but most shippers depend on their freight transport providers to …

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Whitehall unveils ‘impossible’ goal of zero-emission ships on UK waters by 2025

While governments globally continue to fail to address the UN-designated climate emergency, the UK has announced plans to have zero-emission capable ships on its waters by 2025.    
This “ambitious” – dubbed “impossible” by some – target is part of Whitehall’s Clean Maritime Plan, which will incentivise the industry to meet the goal.  
Maritime minister Nusrat Ghani said: “Maritime is vital to the success of the UK’s economy, but it must do everything it can to reduce emissions, improve air and...

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Shipping starting to clean up its act, but aviation contrails still a concern

Emissions reporting has upped the ante – with container shipping statistics labelled as “quite favourable”, while the impact on climate change from aviation contrails will triple by 2050. 
The EU has released its Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) data on vessel CO2 emissions. Containerships emit 28% of CO2 emissions from international shipping into and out of the EU, or a quarter of total shipping emissions.  
“To put that in context, container shipping carries about two-thirds of...

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Aviation must make more effort to go greener – or like shipping, it will be made to

Shipping and aviation are worlds apart in the way the sectors are facing up to their emissions.  
Or rather, in the way others are making them face up to their emissions. 
IMO 2020, which dictates that shipping lines must use low-sulphur fuels, or install scrubbers from next year, is going to add some $15bn to liner industry costs.  
And this week came the news that a group of shipping finance banks are to consider climate action in their lending decisions.  
Momentum is growing. 
“There is a …

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Banks push the box lines to reduce emissions, while air cargo procrastinates

Box lines are set to come under more environmental pressure, following a decision by major banks to factor emissions into lending decisions. 
Eleven major banks, with total loan portfolios to global shipping worth some $100bn, will add climate considerations into lending decisions to incentivise industry decarbonisation. 
The banks will use the Poseidon Principles as a framework for assessing the sector. They are consistent with the IMO’s Greenhouse Gases Strategy, which states that emissions...

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Environmentalists slam MEP74 lack of decision-making on ship emissions

“Shipping industry associations no longer represent the best interests of shipping companies,” was one damning indictment as environmentalists responded angrily to the outcome of the IMO’s Maritime Environmental Protection Committee meetings last week in London. 
The week-long discussions (MEPC 74) were set to consider proposals to cut GHGs produced by shipping, targeting a 50% reduction in maritime emissions by 2050.
However, hopes of a clear path forward on any short-term measures were …

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