Tag: green practices

The CMA CGM Group announced that it is creating a Special Fund for Energies, backed by a five-year, USD 1.5 billion budget, to accelerate its energy transition and achieve net-zero carbon by 2050. 

In support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 13, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) recently outlined its strategy for reducing the carbon intensity of international shipping, OneOcean reminds.

G2 Ocean is launching a new carbon offset program for its customers enabling them to digitally offset the emissions of their shipments by choosing to fund one or multiple trusted climate projects.

The Clean Arctic Alliance has written to the ministers from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands to propose a number of domestic and international actions which would help to rapidly kick-start the establishment of these green corridors in Arctic waters.

Proman Stena Bulk, the joint venture (JV) between Proman and Stena Bulk, announced that their two fully operational methanol-fuelled tankers have become the first vessels to bunker methanol in Ulsan, South Korea.

New research by C-Job Naval Architects shows nuclear energy could be applied as marine propulsion in the future. According to the ship design company, nuclear technology has seen several interesting developments and should be considered for future maritime applications.

Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen, starting in 2025, to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations. 

Maersk announced the construction of the company’s first low GHG emissions contract logistics warehouse in Denmark realised in partnership with Taulov Dry Port. The warehouse is part of Maersk’s strategy to accelerate the delivery of fulfilment capability in Denmark.

Germany’s shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) and Canadian intermodal transportation company Oceanex signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the design of a climate-neutral container roll-on/roll-off (ConRo) vessel.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) has granted research funds to the MIT Energy Initiative, CORE POWER, and the Idaho National Laboratory for a three-year study into the development of offshore floating nuclear power generation in the US.