RECYCLING

Early renewable energy achievement on tap for AB InBev

Learn about AB InBev's sustainable supply chain.

AB InBev is on track to reach its 2025 goal of 100% renewable energy in 2021, according to Angie Slaughter, vice president of sustainability logistics and capabilities procurement at Anheuser-Busch InBev. 

Slaughter joined FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill in a fireside chat Tuesday during the North American Supply Chain Summit to talk about sustainability throughout the supply chain. 

Slaughter said AB InBev has a wind farm in Oklahoma that produces 152 megawatts of power, representing...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/early-renewable-energy-achievement-on-tap-for-ab-inbev

Video: “Carnival Fantasy” Arrives For Recycling As It Ends Her Final Voyage

Carnival-Fantasy on its last-journey

Carnival Fantasy, the fantasy class flagship of the Carnival Cruise Lines has finally beached in Aliaga, Turkey marking the end of her last voyage. The ship is one of the four that had been announced to be leaving the fleet after Carnival Corporations made the decision to sell 13 of its ships earlier this year.

On July 23rd, 2020, Carnival Cruise confirmed that Fantasy had been sold and sent on its final journey to Turkey. Other ships of the fantasy fleet to soon follow suit are the Carnival...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/video-carnival-fantasy-arrives-for-recycling-as-it-ends-her-final-voyage/

IMO 2020 and COVID-19 Push Owners Towards Demolition

  • Owners push a large number of less fuel-efficient vintage ships to scrapyards.
  • The trend is expected to be sustained in the first half of this year.
  • This could have a further downward impact on the freight market.
  • 15 Capesize bulkers and VLOCs have already been sold for recycling this year as dry charter earnings suffer.
  • IMO 2020 sulphur rules have impacted scrapping rates too as the new regulatory framework.

According to an article published in Splash247, the new IMO sulphur regulations,...

https://mfame.guru/imo-2020-and-covid-19-push-owners-towards-demolition/

Port of Amsterdam supports circular model

Article from Port of Amsterdam website:

‘Raw materials are of immeasurable value, because they make our existence possible. In a good circular model, we appreciate this value. For instance, by asking ourselves whether we could use less raw materials to make things and also whether we might use “second-hand raw materials”. So what is required is a broad scope,’ says Andre Arends, managing director of GMP Group, of which Paro, which is located in the port of Amsterdam, is part.

Optimism is good,...

http://container-news.com/port-amsterdam-supports-circular-model/

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