Partnership deal
THE CMA CGM Group has announced a partnership with Shell to supply tens of thousands of tonnes of marine biofuel to its fleet.
The fuel will allow the Group’s ships to travel nearly one million kilometres, equivalent to over 80 round-trips between Rotterdam and New York. In 2019, successfully tested the use of a marine biofuel onboard the container ships CMA CGM White shark and CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt.
The fuel used is composed of 80 per cent low sulfur fuel oil and 20 per cent of a biofuel made of used cooking oil.
The biofuel used reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent and virtually eliminates sulfur oxides emissions. Beyond technical solutions to limit greenhouse gas emissions, CMA CGM wants to unite all maritime transport actors in an international coalition initiated by Rodolphe Saadé, president and chief executive officer of the CMA CGM Group, and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron.
This high-level coalition will work towards the emergence of tomorrow’s clean energy for de-carbonised transport.
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) launched the report The Role of Sustainable Biofuels in the Decarbonisation
of Shipping at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) this month.
The report indicates that biofuels derived from biomass may be an attractive option for the shipping sector and can be used as a feedstock to produce alcohol fuels such as ethanol and methanol, liquified bio-gas (LBG) or bio-diesel.