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The liner shipping industry is the most environmentally friendly way to transport goods around the world volume wise. However, since worldwide business continues to grow the environmental strains have to be kept to a minimum. Regulatory measures demand this by claiming the environmental footprint of a transport. And customers are increasing their requirements as well. In order to meet all these expectations and requirements for sustainable transport solutions Hapag-Lloyd implemented an online tool to reveal emissions in 2011, the Hapag-Lloyd EcoCalc.
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This calculation model projects CO2 emissions especially for shipping in an effort to improve transparency and comparability.
Parameters used in this model for CO2 calculation are:
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Actual fuel consumption
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Actual distance sailed
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Number of days vessel was deployed
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Total TEU (nominal capacity)
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Number of reefer plugs
The CCWG [4] will include recent consolidated findings of the DIN EN 16258 in enhancing the calculation model with regard to vessel utilization and upstream emissions as from 2013 on. The CCWG basic calculation model takes the specific factors deriving in the container shipping industry into account.
As from 2010/2011 ocean carriers were asked to independently verify their calculation process according to the CCWG method including data gathering and actual calculation to independently proof the correctness of the data.
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In 2013 the European Standard DIN EN 16258 [5] as well as the French decree no 2011-1336 of 24 October 2011 [6] come into force.
The voluntary DIN EN 16258 provides a homogeneous “Methodology for calculation and declaration on energy consumptions and GHG emissions in transport services”. For liner shipping allocation rules have to be obeyed.
The French decree no 2011-1336 requires the delivery of carbon emission data for each transport service (goods and passengers transport) carried out in France.
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Ziegler, S. (2014). Environmental Impacts in the Liner Shipping Industry. In: Funk, B., Niemeyer, P., Gómez, J. (eds) Information Technology in Environmental Engineering. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36011-4_19
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