The port service provider PortsDirect has partnered with Svitzer to give its customers access to the EcoTow towage solution to help them drive up sustainability in their supply chains.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe entire supply chain is under scrutiny for where efficiency gains can be made and our partnership with Svitzer provides our customers with the opportunity to address and further improve their Scope 3 emissions within the port environment, improving their sustainability, but also their competitiveness in the eyes of counterparties,\u201d said Kenny Bjergstad, managing director, PortsDirect.<\/p>\n
Green towage<\/strong><\/p>\n Svitzer\u2019s ten EcoTow tugs, located in London and Medway, are powered by marine biofuel and operate entirely on Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) \u2013 an ISSC and RSB-certified sustainable second-generation biofuel produced by using waste material such as used cooking oil as feedstocks.<\/p>\n The biofuel reduces carbon emissions by 100% on a tank-to-wake basis and 90% on a well-to-wake basis compared to marine diesel.<\/p>\n By choosing to use EcoTow, PortsDirect\u2019s customers will be able to lower their Scope 3 emissions, which make up the majority of a company\u2019s carbon footprint and improve the sustainability of their supply chains.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reception for EcoTow in London and Medway has simply been fantastic, proving that the shipping industry is looking for solutions to help it make decarbonisation progress in the near term. Our innovative and world-first carbon-neutral towage solution is an obvious fit to be able to offer to PortsDirect\u2019s customers, and we look forward to further collaboration as we work together to reduce the environmental impact of towage and other services in the port ecosystem,\u201d said Sven Lumber, head of EcoTow at Svitzer.<\/p>\n Svitzer will partner with an independent auditor which will enable the organisation to provide PortsDirect customers with a CO2 savings certificate compliant with regulatory authorities.<\/p>\n For ship owners and operators, PortsDirect\u2019s services include the provision of discounted rate agreements for port services such as towage, launches and pilotage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ship owners and operators will be able to take advantage of a new green\u00a0towage solution to reduce in-port emissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[40,438,26,255,437,436,256,254],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-ecotow-tug","tag-hvo","tag-hydrogenated-vegetable-oil","tag-pilotage","tag-portsdirect","tag-svitzer","tag-towage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}