Falling spot rates, falling contract rates and falling revenues create rising stress and blood pressure in truckload operations teams.
With its fleet of electric vehicles, GoBolt will offer same- and next-day delivery of small parcels in the U.S. and Canada.
The International Maritime Organization and a California congressman look for strategies to lower emissions on World Ocean Day.
Change for the future
Boox is looking to evolve the circular economy with reusable packaging for direct-to-consumer brands.
The partnership marks a “pivotal step” toward making green e-methanol more accessible and commercially viable for the maritime industry.
Rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather are expected to cost ports and shippers billions of dollars annually.
Vessel strikes are a major threat to whales, so better monitoring of their locations could help reduce collisions.
“Partnering with Bunker Holding will accelerate the marine industry adoption of biodiesel to achieve aggressive carbon reduction goals,” said Bob Kenyon, senior vice president of sales and marketing at REG.
Of 18 companies that Friend of the Sea evaluated, it identified Hapag-Lloyd as “the international shipping company most committed to minimizing the risk of whale ship strikes.”
Green ammonia production emits no carbon dioxide, but it has major safety, cost and scaling hurdles to overcome.
A carbon price is an “essential element in any decarbonization plan,” John Butler, president and CEO of WSC, said during a press conference Thursday.
Value Maritime has developed a system to capture carbon onboard vessels, fill up CO2 batteries and use the captured carbon dioxide in greenhouses.
“International collaboration is essential to decarbonize global supply chains. It’s time to get started on this important work,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.
Despite voluntary sustainability efforts and increasing regulations, shipping emissions are on the rise.
Volkswagen aims to support sustainability in shipbuilding and ship recycling through the initiative, said Simon Motter, head of Volkswagen Group Logistics.
“An earlier transition will allow more gradual changes, thereby reducing the risk of significant disruptions of the sector and of asset stranding,” the report said.
Experts across the supply chain weigh in on the most impactful sustainability trends in 2021.
The unique design will improve port efficiency and increase capacity, according to Maersk.
As demand for shipping increases, whales are more at risk of colliding with vessels. A new certification provides strategies to prevent collisions.
An environmental coalition urges Target, Walmart, Amazon and Ikea to clean up their maritime emissions and shipping routes.
“The customer demand will change so much faster than the industrial processes, and I think that to be early might be challenging, but to be too late will be devastating,” said Anna Borg, president and CEO of Vattenfall.
The transportation industry needs to transition to cleaner fuels to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Green hydrogen-based fuels have potential to decarbonize shipping, aviation and long-haul trucking, according to recent reports.
Captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen are combined to make e-methanol. Sweden-based Liquid Wind has big plans for this alternative shipping fuel.
Can collecting carbon dioxide from ambient air combined with renewable energy create a cost-competitive, scalable, carbon-neutral fuel? Maersk is betting on it.
Green shipping technology and fuels are costly and could remain that way until economies of scale and innovation advance — something that many shipping companies say will require government regulations.
“We believe that every sector has to make a contribution toward global decarbonization,” Fernando Rangel Villasana, senior technical manager at SBTi, told FreightWaves.
Maersk is adding bio-methanol to its portfolio of green marine fuels after making e-methanol and methanol-powered vessel agreements in August.
Sustainable fuels and technologies are up against decades of perfecting the efficiency and economies of scale of the fossil fuel industry.
Even environmentally indifferent consumers want sustainable shipping options
As businesses struggle to keep up with consumers’ growing demand for sustainability, 81% of respondents in a recent survey said companies use excessive packaging when shipping products.
What happens to ocean vessels when they’re retired? AskWaves explores how this initiative is striving for transparent ship supply chains.
The push to deliver items to the consumer faster is hampering efforts to create a more sustainable supply chain.
FreightWaves’ Zach Strickland and Loadsmart Vice President of Operations Jim Nicholson chat about mode optimization, truckload consolidation and technology’s role in sustainable shipping.
Relying on fossil fuels to move people and goods creates a massive carbon footprint that the transportation industry is only starting to address.
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative’s road map to sustainability includes financial, social and environmental sustainability factors.
Last mile may be the final stop, but it needs to be front of mind for shippers, according to two industry experts.
In an interview with FreightWaves, SSI Executive Director Andrew Stephens talks about zero-emission shipping fuel and sustainability challenges.
