News / Shipping must do better on CO2 emissions: 'Shape up or ship out'

Bruno Cornaille (Head of Sustainable Development – JF Hillebrand) and Bruce Marshall (Head of Key Client Forwarders – Maersk Line) signing the Carbon Pact at the Vinexpo Trade Fair in Bordeaux.

Environmental lobbyists have derided “ambitious” CO2 reduction plans announced by four international shipping associations as “hardly a break from business as usual”.

Yesterday, Bimco, Intercargo, the International Chamber of Shipping and Intertanko jointly proposed that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulate to maintain international shipping’s annual CO2 emissions below 2008 levels, and reduce emissions per tonne of cargo transported by at least 50% of 2008 levels by 2050.

The director of global shipping operations at Carbon War Room, Maurice Meehan, says the objectives ...