After almost one year of continuous biofuel operation onboard its car carrier Autosky, UECC managed to reduce carbon intensity by more than half.
In fact, during the year-long program the company marked a reduction of over 20 million kilograms of CO2 emissions, an absolute reduction of more than 9,000 kilos of sulphur oxide emissions and a similarly total reduction in Particulate Matter.
To better explain, the Carbon Intensity of the Autosky on a grams of CO2 per tonne-km basis:
2018:- 85.51 gCO2/tkm
2019:- 85.62 gCO2/tkm
2020:- 35.96 gCO2/tkm
“That’s a 58% reduction in Carbon Intensity! Keep in mind that the Initial IMO GHG Strategy aims to reduce carbon intensity by 40% by 2030 and you can see that UECC is really In Front of this ambitious objective”.
…Daniel Gent, Energy & Sustainability Manager stated.
During the test period, the company bunkered over 6,000 metric tonnes of biofuel, exclusively supplied by GoodFuels.
Namely, the fuel itself has been derived from a variety of feedstocks, including processed used cooking oil. All of the biofuel that was consumed in the past 12 months, has been sustainably sourced and has utilised waste and residues with no higher quality application available.
Concluding, the switch to these biofuels required little to no technical modifications on the vessel and the fuel has been handled onboard by company’s expert engineers without any issue.
