GoodShipping’s carbon insetting initiative gains 17 participants

The “insetting” initiative of Dutch company GoodShipping aims to achieve carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction of 2,023 mt this year by having companies transport their sea freight using biofuel.

PHOTO: Samskip's biofuel-fuelled shortsea vessel Samskip Innovator fitted with carbon capture and utilisation scrubber unit. Samskip

Carbon insetting means to reduce a company’s CO2 emissions outside of its direct operations, but within its supply chain.

A total of 17 companies have joined the initiative which will enable Dutch shipping company Samskip to transport their freight using biofuel, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

The participating companies are Dille & Kamille, Swinkels Family Brewers (known for Bavaria and Cornet, among others), Yogi Tea, Beiersdorf, Bugaboo, Otto Group, K2 Forwarding, Yumeko, NINE & Co., De Kleine Keuken, Royal van Whije Verf, Intersteel, OMyBag, Regent Ingredients, Dopper, Johnny Cashew and Anchor International.

GoodShipping started this initiative in partnership with the Port of Rotterdam Authority in December last year.

“Shipping is not yet on schedule to be CO2 neutral by 2050, even though it is technically feasible. It is therefore good that shipping, as well as industry, in Europe will soon pay for CO2 emissions through the ETS. This encourages sustainability, as it makes environment- and climate-friendly alternatives more attractive financially,” Port of Rotterdam Authority’s chief executive Allard Castelein says.

Last month, Samskip installed two scrubbers equipped with carbon capture features on its vessels, Samskip Innovator and Samskip Endeavour.

The two vessels already run on 100% biofuel. Samskip claims that this alone can reduce their CO2 emissions by 90%. By using the new CCU scrubber system on top of running on biofuel, Samskip expects to offer carbon neutral shortsea service.

By Tuhin Roy

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