Hapag-Lloyd And CMA CGM To Collaborate With Nestle For Advancing Cleaner Shipping

Container shipping majors Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM announced a relationship with Nestlé, a Swiss food and beverage business, to develop greener shipping.

In 2023, Nestlé chose an emission-reducing shipping solution, Ship Green, for most of the company’s volumes moved with Hapag-Lloyd. This will directly contribute to avoiding emissions and bring them one step closer to reaching a net-zero GHG-emissions footprint, according to Hapag-Lloyd.

The company employs waste- and residue-based biofuel in its fleet to reduce pollution instead of traditional marine fuel oil. Hapag-Lloyd’s “Ship Green” program assigns the emissions avoided by burning biofuel to clients’ shipments, allowing them to drastically reduce emissions generated by their transports. Furthermore, Nestlé has joined forces with the French maritime powerhouse CMA CGM.

Nestlé is currently using biofuel to power 100% of the CMA CGM volumes, resulting in 84% lower carbon emissions and about 70,000 tons of CO2 avoided per year.

Nestlé will collaborate with Danish shipping giant Maersk and CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd. Nestlé intends to immediately transition the equivalent of 50% of its global shipping requirements to alternative lower-emission fuels.

The company hopes to cut its yearly emissions of greenhouse gases from shipping by about 200,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent by moving to cargo ships that use waste fuels such as used cooking oil. This might save approximately 500,000 barrels of crude oil from being used for ocean transit.

This means that shipping companies will employ alternative fuels to move the same tonnage in respective operations this year.

Reference: Offshore Energy

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