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Maersk customers cut the carbon

[ April 8, 2024   //   ]

Maersk Group says that in 2023, it was able to avoid the emission of over 680,000 tonnes of CO2 – with the help of customers who paid the premium for more expensive, green fuels. Last year, these amounted to 212 shippers, some of them transporting many thousand boxes, a serious financial commitment to reduce emissions on a voluntary basis, the Danish company pointed out.

An increasing number of these customers ship their entire sea freight volume using Maersk’s green ECO Delivery product whereby bio-diesel overs over 80% emissions saved compared with fossil ship fuel.

With green methanol from biogenic sources, emissions are already more than two thirds lower than with fossil fuels, but with synthetically produced e-methanol, the final saving compared to fossil fuels will be more than 90%, Maersk expects.

A total of 660,000 TEU (standard containers) were transported with biofuels in 2023, up 37% compared to 2022.

Maersk Ocean’s head of surcharges, value adding services and energy, Maja Nyvold, said: “We have had many customers giving ECO Delivery Ocean a first try for some of their cargo volumes. After they realized how well it is working, more and more customers either increased the cargo volume or committed themselves even to ship 100% of their seaborne cargo under Maersk care with ECO Delivery Ocean. This is the breakthrough of something that makes a real change for our climate.”

Nyvold’s team developed the product together with other Maersk experts in 2017/18 and introduced it as from 2019. “The increasing number of these 100% commitments is an amazing trend and commitment of our customers since green fuels are significantly more expensive than fossil fuels.”

Companies signed up to a 100% commitment include Nestlé, Inditex, Novo Nordisk (100% of their Maersk outbound logistics on ECO Delivery) and Volvo Cars (100% of their inbound logistics on ECO Delivery) as well as Danish and Norwegian retail companies Flying Tiger Copenhagen and Europris.

New customers who have signed up for ECO Delivery Ocean in the new year include large retail chains like Action from the Netherlands (100% of ocean volume), ICA from Sweden (100% of long-haul shipments) and the chemical company Borregard from Norway with 100% of ocean volume. Borregard is also taking piloting an e-truck solution for low emission landside transport together with Maersk.

Almost 60% of Maersk’s top 200 customers have committed to, or set science-based targets. Maersk’s Emission Dashboard gives shippers a comprehensive overview of the emissions across all carriers and transport modes and facilitates best and most impactful measures to reduce GHG emissions.

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