News / Car carrier customers might be greener than they let on, says UECC

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Shipper clients of pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) are “hiding” their decarbonisation success from the public, shortsea operator UECC has suggested.

The PCTC operator, which conducts shortsea ro-ro operations throughout Europe, has established a biofuel framework based on ’mass balancing’, similar to how Maersk uses methanol.

Daniel Gent, UECC’s energy & sustainability manager, explained that a large amount of research had gone into the sourcing of biofuel: the due diligence on biofuel provenance and origins – something for which not every company has ...