The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo Cars cooperates with Maersk to reduce its global greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint from seaborne logistics with the use of biofuel.
Volvo Cars will use Maersk’s ECO Delivery Ocean service for inbound ocean container transports of production material destined for manufacturing plants based in Europe and the Americas, as well as all spare parts distribution made globally by ocean container transports.
For its decarbonisation product, ECO Delivery Ocean, Maersk substitutes fossil fuels on its ships with second generation biodiesel based on waste feedstocks to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of customers’ ocean transport directly in the Ocean supply chain, i.e. without compensatory measures like offsetting.
Volvo Cars and Maersk have both the target to reduce their total greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2040. Sharing this ambitious pace in the decarbonisation, we are joining forces to maximise the progress towards net zero supply chains.
… said Birna Odefors, Managing Director of Maersk’s Area Nordics
With almost 15,000 containers under Maersk ECO Delivery Ocean, Volvo Cars will reduce GHG emissions by 28,000 tonnes within the next twelve months. The first ECO Delivery transports commenced in June.
We want to spark other car makers into action as well, to increase demand for carbon efficient ocean transports and to establish renewable fuels as a mid-term solution that works. We all have a responsibility to act.
… said Javier Varela, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of Volvo Cars
