Going green

Plan to use nearby land for port activities at Felixstowe is denied

Planners have denied permission to use 67 hectares of land for port-related activities at Felixstowe.
East Suffolk Council had been asked to “ensure that adequate space is made available for port-related growth and activity”, but planning inspector Philip Lewis said he had “conflicting views before me” and that the activities for the area appeared “ambitious and optimistic”.
However, he acknowledged “the likely future container numbers to be handled and where they are …

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Scrubbers could be harmful to food chain, suggests leaked IMO report

Oh dear. Environmental groups are calling for a halt to the use of scrubbers, until more is known about their impact. A leaked internal IMO report reveals there is insufficient “toxicity data” to assess the risk to humans of scrubbers via contaminated seafood, after polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which have been linked to several types of cancer, are dumped in the sea in the process. While the Clean Shipping Alliance believed …

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CMA CGM appoints Guilhem Isaac Georges its sustainability director

The CMA CGM Group has appointed Guilhem Isaac Georges as sustainability director.
He will head the new Sustainable Development & Environment department, and report to the executive office.
Mr Georges graduated in 2005 from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse and in 2018 from Columbia University’s Executive Education Program in Conservation and Environmental Sustainability.
He began his career in 2006 as deputy chief of staff of the president of the Midi Pyrénées Region, …

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New EC president unveils Green Deal: how to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050

The new European Commission president today presented the policies of the European Green Deal, which have been largely welcomed by clean transport groups. 
Ursula von der Leyen announced a package of measures to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, which include reducing emissions by half in the next 10 years, a €100bn fund to finance the change, a carbon border tax and various industry initiatives.  
Under plans for transport, aviation will see its free …

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Biofuels may provide a good start for shipping in its quest to cut emissions

Following the recent completion of trial shipments on containerships powered by biofuels, a new report from the Copenhagen-based Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) suggests this fuel type may be of short-term help in shipping’s quest to reduce its carbon emissions.
The current International Maritime Organization (IMO) goal is for shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to be cut by 50% by 2050 at a minimum – although environmental lobbyists and even many shipping figures …

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Shipping line carbon calculators are ‘useless’ – there are ‘no winners here’

Anyone using shipping line carbon calculators should think again, according to research by Sea Intelligence, because the majority of them are “useless”.
“They are riddled with absurdly poor data quality,” said the consultancy, pointing in particular to sailing distances, which vary wildly. It also revealed that while OOCL’s calculator shows emissions of 96.84 tons of CO2, CMA CGM – on the same route, with the same ship – emits just 56.80 …

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Punish directors who don’t make climate disclosures, says hedge fund

It’s not just shippers that are beginning to insist their suppliers have a plan to tackle climate change; now investors too are looking to force change. Activist hedge fund TCI plans to target directors of companies that fail to disclose their carbon emissions. The founder said: “Investing in a company that doesn’t disclose its pollution is like investing in a company that doesn’t disclose its balance sheet. If governments won’t force …

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Anger at ‘bureaucratic’ IMO’s ‘lack of urgency’ on cleaning up shipping

The IMO has decided on a goal-setting approach by member states to decarbonise shipping, rather than progress the proposals put forward by some members for a mandatory speed reduction on vessels.  
The strategy, decided last week in London, not to opt for speed restrictions has angered the members of the Clean Shipping Coalition (CSC) who blasted the IMO for its “bureaucracy” and “lack of urgency”. 
An IMO working group agreed a draft text that will be put forward to the …

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Climate change: IAG reviews ‘fuel-tankering’

A new report suggests that slower-steaming is the best way to cut emissions from ships. Cutting ship speeds by 20% would cut sulphur and nitrogen oxides by about 24%, while also reducing  black carbon. But some lines, notably Maersk, are very much opposed to speed limits, and others say it would lead to more ships, and therefore more emissions. The BBC reports.
Perhaps a quicker win in transport would be to end the practice of fuel-tankering by airlines, in …

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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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