Companies that import or export their freight by vessel generally have little influence on the container shipping company\u2019s fuel choice, but GoodShipping aims to change this with the \u2018insetting\u2019 concept.<\/p>\n
\u201dShipping is not yet on schedule to be carbon neutral by 2050,\u201d said Allard Castelein, CEO, Port of Rotterdam Authority.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe 2023 tonne reduction through sustainable fuel use is just the start. We want to show that it can be done and start the discussion, with the aim of scaling up and reducing carbon emissions even further. The transition tempo needs to step up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stepping things up<\/strong><\/p>\n Insetting does not involve achieving carbon reductions through compensation (offsetting by planting trees, for example), but through shipping using sustainable fuel.<\/p>\n Shippers often transport small numbers of containers on different vessels and can use insetting to purchase a certain amount of carbon reduction via GoodShipping.<\/p>\n GoodShipping ensures that this is achieved by providing a vessel with sustainable fuel. This does not need to be the same vessel on which the containers are transported.<\/p>\n The aim of the \u2018Switch to Zero\u2019 campaign is to get some twenty sea freight shippers on board. Swinkels Family Brewers, known for brands including Bavaria and Cornet and Dille & Kamille are the first to announce their participation in the campaign. They will have some or all of their containers shipped using sustainable fuel next year.<\/p>\n GoodShipping and the Port of Rotterdam Authority want to find some twenty new sea freight shipping companies that wish to use this service.<\/p>\n The aim is for joint vessel bunkering with these shippers to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by 2023 tonnes. This is comparable to the amount of carbon released when transporting some 15,000 teu containers between Rotterdam and Gothenburg.<\/p>\n Participating companies can opt for carbon reduction of 75, 100 or 125 tonnes. GoodShipping and the port authority are giving a substantial discount per tonne carbon reduction to make it attractive for companies to find out more about the insetting approach.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Port of Rotterdam Authority and GoodShipping are conducting a joint campaign to persuade companies to transport their sea freight using sustainable fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[517,807,808,152,71],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-good-shipping","tag-insetting","tag-port-of-rotterdam","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}