WWL cuts carbon emissions by 21%
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) reports that the company managed to cut its CO2 emissions by 21% last year, compared with 2009. The company attributed the improvement to increased fleet optimisation and utilisation. The company also reported results of its low-sulphur fuel policy, which has allowed it to cut its SO2 emissions by 151,000 tonnes from 2000 to 2010. CEO Arild Iversen remarked that the company’s commitment to sustainability, which has delivered steady and strong results, is the best way to prepare its customers for a world of increasing environmental costs and regulations. The figures cited above are contained in the company’s 2010 Environmental Sustainability Report, which was the shipping industry’s first emissions inventory report to receive third party verification that it conforms to the accounting requirements of ISO 14064-1 and the GHG protocol. "A future that demands sustainability is on our immediate horizon," commented Melanie Moore, vice president of Environment at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, "New international regulations beginning in 2012 will significantly increase shipping costs as vessels will be required to burn cleaner, more expensive fuels. Improved environmental performance is the best way to prepare our fleet and our customers for these changes." WWL’s other environmental initiatives from 2010 include the launch of the Castor Green Terminal & Processing Centre – the world’s first zero emissions marine terminal concept, and the Green Zone – an employee innovation challenge that generated nearly 200 ways for the company to reduce energy consumption at ports and terminal facilities. Quelle: eyefortransport |