News / Yang Ming top carrier for carbon efficiency – but not everyone agrees

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Yang Ming is the most carbon-efficient carrier on the Asia-Europe tradelane, according to research by Xeneta – but independent researcher Searoutes.com ranks the Taiwanese carrier second, after HMM.

What began as Xeneta’s ‘heroes and villains’ project – hastily rebranded to ‘naming and faming’ – uses Xeneta’s carbon efficiency index (CEI), a CO2 equivalent per tonne-mile measure which differs dramatically from IMO’s chosen CII measure. This yielded surprising results on the Far East to South America East Coast route in February.

Now, Yang Ming ...