Tag: green practices

UASC has launched the first LNG-ready ultra large container carriers (ULCCs) in the world. UASC’s initiatives and the port of Rotterdam’s ambitions for sustainability complement each other perfectly.

Global Forwarder GEODIS and Maersk Line deliver their share and partner on a 5-year strategic commitment to reduce their environmental footprint.

Leading cruise lines announced partnerships with ocean conservation non profits to improve and sustain world's oceans and seas. Carnival Corporation will host the Nature Conservancy's Mapping Ocean Wealth Annual Meeting Being at Miami and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. together with WWF announced their five-year partnership setting ambitious and measurable goals to reduce company's environmental footprint.

From the 1st of January, 2016, Green Award certified inland barges receive a 15% discount on the harbor dues in Nijmegen.

Unilever intends to reduce the CO2 emissions of its logistics chain by 15 to 20 percent by working with transport companies that use LNG. Unilever relies on sea-going vessels and inland vessels for the transport of raw materials and finished products to and from the group’s 250 plants

The Indian Ministry of Shipping announced a new project which aims to make the Major Ports across India cleaner and greener. The project called 'Green Ports’ will have two verticals - one is ‘Green Ports Initiatives’ related to environmental issues and second is ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’.

From the price of oil to environmental regulation, 2015 was a year of turmoil and uncertainty for the marine sector. Despite this, there were some common global trends that will define 2016, according to Tim Schweikert, President & CEO of GE Marine

An innovative project to optimise LNG ship hull forms is set to reduce emissions and save significant amounts of fuel for LNG vessel operators.

Port of Amsterdam announced its intention to double the bonuses awarded to ships listed on the Environmental Ship Index (ESI).

According to our readers' clicks, 2015 was all about Ballast Water Treatment and SOx Emissions, with a twist of world’s greenest ships filling in the Top 10 GREEN4SEA Articles list of 2015.