More and more shippers take action on seaborne GHG emissions; Maersk ECO Deliver Ocean product reduces GHG emissions by more than 80%

Shippers are increasingly taking action to eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their logistics. The latest numbers of Maersk’s ECO Delivery Ocean product are a strong proof for this trend says Maersk.

Especially for the seaborne cargo, Maersk ECO Delivery Ocean is a well-established and independently certified product to reduce the GHG emissions of an ocean transport by more than 80%.

Maja’s team developed the product together with other Maersk experts back in 2017/18 and introduced it as from 2019 and the success of the product is proved when new customers sign up for the product in the New Year.In a nutshell, Maersk ECO Delivery Ocean product replaces fossil fuels with green fuels such as bio diesel and green methanol. The bio diesel is solely sourced from waste streams and lead to GHG emission reductions of above 80% on a well-to-wake basis…

Kaisa Helena Tikk is heading Maersk’s Commercial Sustainability team. Her team members are experts and can act as advisors for Maersk’s customers who want to reduce the GHG emissions in their supply chains…Almost 60% of Maersk’s top 200 customers have committed to, or set science-based targets for their journey to net-zero. Maersk’s Emission Dashboard is a solution for shippers to get a comprehensive overview of the emissions across all carriers and transport modes…Some of Maersk’s ECO Delivery Ocean customers are shipping volumes of +50,000 containers and more per year on green fuels already. The good news: Maersk has enough green fuel available to serve all customers’ increasing ambitions to decarbonise their ocean transports.

While the ECO Delivery Ocean success continues, the teams of Maja, Kaisa and Emma as well as several other Maersk colleagues are working already on the next steps beyond low emission seaborne transports.

Listening to the customers’ demand, Maersk launched an ECO Delivery Inland product in 2023 in select locations within the USA using owned and leased electric trucks. Further, Maersk began deploying heavy duty electrical trucks, together with partners, in Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and China, and pilots in Brazil. Maersk has also low and very low-emissions dry storage warehouses in several countries across the globe. Finally, Maersk has started piloting even an ECO Delivery Air product for airfreight with first automotive and lifestyle/fashion customers.

Maersk is dependent on its suppliers’ willingness to invest in green assets, and on energy providers and energy infrastructure for green power – as in ocean transport, strong partnership is key to drive the decarbonization here as well.

Last, but not least, we need to put all the good things which are happening right now into perspective: “We have an ambitious goal to become a climate-neutral company by 2024. The 660,000 standard containers transported on green fuels in 2023 equal 3% of our global ocean transport volume and show that the low emission movement is taking large steps year-on-year. This is achieved thanks to an amazing effort together with our partners and vendors”, says Johan Sigsgaard. “We are happy to continue to serve our customers’ demand for climate-neutral ocean transport and are confident that together, we can achieve our goals”.