News / Ocean carriers' online carbon calculators are 'useless', says report

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Ocean carriers have been stung by a SeaIntelligence report which brands their online CO2 calculators as “useless” and “pointless”.

The Copenhagen research firm claimed they were “riddled with absurdly poor data”, citing, among other things, inconsistent sailing distances being quoted by different carriers for the same ship.

Most of the world’s biggest container lines, along with many major forwarders and shippers, are members of the Clean Cargo Working Group (CCWG), a not-for-profit carrier-shipper initiative dedicated to improving the environmental performance of container ...