Shipping line carbon calculators are 'useless' – there are 'no winners here'

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By Alex Lennane

04/12/2019

Anyone using shipping line carbon calculators should think again, according to research by Sea Intelligence, because the majority of them are “useless”.

“They are riddled with absurdly poor data quality,” said the consultancy, pointing in particular to sailing distances, which vary wildly. It also revealed that while OOCL’s calculator shows emissions of 96.84 tons of CO2, CMA CGM – on the same route, with the same ship – emits just 56.80 tons. In a post on LinkedIn, Lars Jensen wrote: “No ...

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