News / Yang Ming sails round the Cape, and still beats rivals on emissions

04/05/2023

THE Alliance vessels have been sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, rather than via the Suez Canal – but are still beating rival carriers in carbon emission reductions, according to Xeneta’s latest data.

Yang Ming, recently the surprise winner in Xeneta’s emissions study of the Asia-Europe tradelane, is now touted as the top carrier on the Europe-Asia backhaul as well.

Yang Ming, with a Carbon Efficiency Index (CEI) score of 80.4, beat CMA CGM’s 88.3, HMM’s 89.4 and MSC’ 124.4, despite the ...