News / Vessel emissions data: it's a ticket to the dance in greener shipping's 'new normal'

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Drastic reductions in container shipping service speeds are to become a thing of the past, now that slow-steaming is accepted as “the new normal”, Maersk Line’s head of environment & CSR has told The Loadstar.

Following the recent publication of Maersk’s 2013 sustainability report, which claimed it had burned 1.2m tonnes less fuel in 2013 than in 2012 – resulting in a saving of $764m – and saw a CO2 emission reduction of 3.8m tonnes, the actual term “slow steaming” barely ...