Company uses biofuels

MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company has reaffirmed its commitment to decarbonisation after the release of a report from environmental NGO Transport and Environment that estimates MSC is the eighth-largest single carbon emitter in Europe.

MSC has started using biofuels and says it is strongly committed to further reducing CO2 emissions.

“While continuously increasing its TEU capacity to meet the growing demand, MSC operates a modern, green fleet and is investing heavily in low-carbon technologies and extensive newbuild and retrofit programs to boost performance and minimise our environmental impact.

For example, MSC’s fleet improvement program has resulted in a 13 per cent reduction in

CO2 emissions per transport work in 2015-18.

“Furthermore, the latest new building additions to the fleet — led by MSC Gülsün, the largest container ship in the world — has introduced a new class of sustainable container shipping, with the lowest carbon footprint by design, at 7.49 grams of CO2 emissions to move one ton of cargo one nautical mile.”

MSC fully supports reporting CO2 emissions transparently and precisely in the EU monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system, as mandated by EU legislation, but says it is vital that the raw data reported in the system are analysed accurately and take operational realities fully into account, to give a realistic picture of the related emissions.