Emissions & Omissions

Analysis: How green is DSV’s Green Logistics initiative?

At the November Glasgow climate conference, COP26, the Danish government along with other states and carrier Maersk Line, agreed to push for zero emissions from shipping by 2050, doubling the maritime sector’s emissions target.
The maritime sector failed to build on this initiative during its own environmental meeting at the International Maritime Organization that same month, deferring decisions on emissions.
Copenhagen’s COP26 climate initiative has intensified the pressure on supply chains...

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Artec Vida launches revolutionary sailing feeder ship design

Small UK-based engineering firm Artec Vida has launched a feeder vessel design it believes will revolutionise the shortsea feeder market.
It would reduce vessel emissions by up to 85%, according to CEO Graham Ford.
The vessel is a 1,000 teu sailing ship, branded the Container Caravel, and the design uses hoops to support sails which are furled using modern technology.
“All equipment is computer-controlled using ‘sail-by-wire’ technology, including multiple back-ups that minimise the …

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Decarbonisation debate manoeuvring set to run on, and on…

Debate at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) over its level of ambition for decarbonising shipping closed without conclusion – discussions continued for more than a day and a half of the five-day meeting, and the chairman invited member states to submit proposals for discussion at the next meeting.
Concluding discussions on increasing the level of industry ambition by moving to zero emissions by 2050, chairman Hideaki Saito reminded delegates that the …

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Searoutes raises €2.4m to reduce shippers’ GHG emissions

Searoutes, the Marseilles-based start-up that helps shippers reduce the carbon footprint of their transport, has announced a €1.3 million financing round led by WSB Beteiligungs, the venture capital firm founded by Wolf Scheder.
Created in 2019 by Dr. Pierre Garreau and Carsten Bullemer, Searoutes has designed its own, proprietary eco-calculator to compute the carbon footprint of a container along its journey. Incubated and accelerated by ZEBOX, the international incubator and accelerator …

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Plenty of orders for new LNG-fuelled box ships, but conversions are too costly

According to shipbroker Gibson, the current orderbook for LNG-fuelled vessels stands at over 130 ships, including 40 containerships.
“Of these, Hapag-Lloyd has six 23,000 teu vessels under construction at DSME, CMA CGM has four 22,000 teu vessels on order, along with nine 15,000 teu vessels at HHI, while Eastern Pacific Shipping has 10 14,800 teu ships on order from HHI,” reported Gibson.
However, there is little appetite for ordering smaller LNG-fuelled container …

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CMA CGM unveils another major green step with purchase of bio-methane fuel

CMA CGM has stepped up its investment into alternative fuels, launching a project to buy 12,000 tonnes of bio-methane on a guarantee-of-origin basis.
It noted that this amount of fuel would be enough to power two of its intra-Europe subsidiary Containerships’ 1,400 teu LNG-powered vessels, deployed on a St Petersburg-Rotterdam Baltic Sea feeder loop, for an entire year.
However, the company stressed that, acquiring the fuel did not mean it would be …

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Forwarder Forto goes green and offers to compensate customers’ CO2

Digital forwarder Forto will offer climate-neutral solutions across its portfolio by 2025 – but it already has a good take-up of its carbon offset programme, despite higher costs for customers.
The company has pledged to offer to compensate the CO₂ of every customer, and is working with Planetly to measure and analyse the carbon footprint of the transport booked by customers, in order to identify inefficiencies and reduce emissions.
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Time to go up a gear on sustainability, and it needs collective effort, says Seko

Seko Logistics management reckons it’s time to shift gears to a collective effort on sustainability.
The logistics provider has joined the Sustainable Air Freight Alliance (SAFA), an industry initiative established by BSR, an organisation of sustainable business experts.
SAFA has some 250 members, airlines, forwarders and shippers, looking to jointly press the accelerator on sustainability.
On the shipper side, SAFA boasts membership of the likes of H&M, Hewlett-Packard, Louis Vuitton and Nike,...

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DHL steps up its bid to go from ‘yellow’ to green with new emissions targets

DHL has joined hundreds of major companies in signing up to the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), part of its accelerated roadmap to decarbonisation.
It has also promised investment in climate-neutral logistics of €7bn ($8.35bn), up to 2030.
Some 1,200 companies are now using the SBTi, which aims to cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and must follow a “rigorous process” to develop an emissions reduction target in line with  the initiative’s criteria.
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