UECC, a provider of short sea transportation services for cars and other rolling cargo in Europe, has signed a three-year contract for Svitzer\u2019s EcoTow product, through which fossil fuels are replaced with biofuels on Svitzer\u2019s tugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this agreement, UECC once again positions itself in front of the market, demonstrating that decarbonisation projects are scalable and available,\u201d said Daniel Gent, energy & sustainability manager, UECC.<\/p>\n
\u201dThis project aligns with our own supplier policy, which looks to holistically reduce the environmental impact of our business operation, far beyond regulatory requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tank-to-wake<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Gent added that biofuels are among the most effective fuels for decarbonisation in the short term as these are readily available and can deliver easy, immediate cuts of as much as 100% in tank-to-wake emissions for existing vessels.<\/p>\n The new partnership will result in a reduction of almost 25% in UECC\u2019s seaborne Scope 3 emissions covering indirect emissions associated with business operations across IUCC\u2019s value chain.<\/p>\n It is estimated that CO2 emissions from UECC\u2019s towage operations at the ports of\u202fEsbjerg, Gothenburg and Malmo will be reduced by more than 300,000kg over the term of the agreement with Svitzer.<\/p>\n Sven Lumber, head of EcoTow at Svitzer, added: \u201cWe are extremely pleased to see UECC among the first-movers on EcoTow in Scandinavia. With this agreement they join other global Svitzer customers who partner with us around decarbonisation, gaining the ability to include externally audited CO2 emission savings in their reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n Shipowners will have to meet more stringent environmental performance standards with implementation of the IMO\u2019s Carbon Intensity Indicator from 1 January 2023 and the Fuel EU Maritime regulation due to be phased in from 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Scandinavian cargo transporter is switching its tugs to biofuel use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40,27,659,120,658,9,256,11],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-biofuel","tag-ecotow","tag-europe","tag-maersk","tag-ports","tag-svitzer","tag-tugs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","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=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}