COPENHAGEN: The world’s largest container ship operator, Maersk Line, has announced a target to significantly reduce emissions produced per container moved.
Maersk LineMaersk Line plans to cut emissions per container moved by 60% by 2020 as part of a five year plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 200 million tonnes of CO2e. The amount of emission reduction envisaged is equivalent to emissions from all passenger cars in France, the company noted.
The shipping company has set 2007 as the baseline for calculation of emission reduction by 2020. The emissions intensity target translates to reduction of per container shipped emissions from 76.9 g CO2e per kilometre to 30.8 g CO2e per kilometre in 2020.
The company had announced a similar target to reduce emissions in 2010. Speaking at the launch of the 2014 Sustainability Update (PDF), Signe Bruun Jensen, Global Head of Sustainability at Maersk Line, stated that the company plans to decouple volume growth from emissions and will target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% in absolute terms while increasing volume growth by 80% by 2020.
