Port of Rotterdam aims to reduce CO2 emissions through carbon insetting

Port of Rotterdam has partnered with Dutch company GoodShipping to enable shippers reduce carbon dioxide emissions through a process of “insetting.”

PHOTO: GoodShipping

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

Together Rotterdam and GoodFuels intend to rope in around 20 sea freight shippers who will commit to transporting either all or a part of their cargo with biofuels.

The participating companies can buy carbon dioxide reductions of 75 mt, 100 mt or 125 mt. On choosing any of these, GoodShipping will provide a vessel with biofuel from waste sources, and thereby cut carbon dioxide emissions in the supply chain. It does not necessarily have to be the vessel carrying the cargo, Port of Rotterdam says.

So far, two companies - Swinkels Family Brewers and Dille & Kamille - have joined the initiative.

The Port of Rotterdam has been pursuing various initiatives to cut down port and shipping emissions.

Last month it partnered with Dutch company Battolyser Systems to install a "Battolyser" plant capable of producing 1 gigawatt/year of green hydrogen. Prior to that in October, it signed a green shipping corridor deal with Sweden’s Port of Gothenburg.

Rtterdam has also partnered with the Port of Singapore on a green corridor, which could become the world's longest and biggest in cargo volume when it is set to be up and running by 2027.

By Tuhin Roy

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