BSRs Clean Cargo 2013 Progress Report
BSR’sClean Cargo Working Group’s2013 “Collaborative Progress” report-which provides data from more than 2,300 ships, representing more than 60 percent of global ocean container capacity-indicates that average carbon-dioxide emissions for global ocean container transport have declined year on year, and by more than 7 percent between 2011 and 2012.
While changes in carrier representation or global trade conditions may account for part of the emissions reductions described in the report, the continued performance improvement is also attributed to carrier fleet efficiency and year-on-year improvements in data quality.
The report, which includes data from 16 of the world’s leading ocean container carriers, also highlights how the group has improved the measurement, evaluation, and reporting of environmental performance data for global shipping customers and ocean transport providers.
Introduction
Customers, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders are increasing the pressure on cargo-transport providers to report and reduce CO2 emissions, as well as other environmental impacts. The need for standardized, industry-approved calculation methodologies is crucial in order to begin fulfilling these demands. Clean Cargo is a global business-to-business platform where such developments are realized.
Dedicated to improving the environmental performance of ocean container transport, CCWG develops standardized methodologies to measure key environmental performance indicators and easy-to-use tools that meet both shipping customers and cargo carriers’ needs to reduce environmental impacts. Container carriers have been reporting their CO2 performance to their customers in a credible and comparable format, based on the CCWG CO2 methodology-the only existing and broadly recognized industry standard for container shipping-for the past five years.
This reporting and dialogue enables shipping customers to calculate the environmental impacts of transporting goods around the world and benchmark carriers’ performance. Having this information helps shipping customers make informed buying decisions in their supply chains.This report publicly provides the CCWG annual aggregated global CO2 emissions by trade lane for 2009 through 2012.
2012-2013 Highlights
Clean Cargos data collection activities over the 2012 reporting period show:
Clean Cargos data collection activities over the 2012-2013 reporting period
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Annual Trade Lane CO2 Emission Factors
Every year Clean Cargo carriers report on vessel-specific environmental performance data to BSR via a standard template. The aggregated data is provided to shipping customers via individualized carrier scorecards.In order to continually increase data transparency, as well as the availability of quality metrics, Clean Cargo annually publishes aggregated trade-lane emissions factors. Clean Cargo’s fourth annual release indicates that average CO2 emissions for global ocean transportation routes have declined by more than 7 percent from 2011 to 2012 and by nearly 16 percent since 2009.
While changes in carrier representation or global trade conditions likely explain a portion of these results, the continued performance improvement is also attributed to carrier fleet efficiency and data quality, both of which have direct benefits for shipping customers.
Trade lanes listed in alphabetical order by regional point of departure
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For more information, read theBSRs Clean Cargo 2013 Progress Report.
