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STEEP REQUIREMENTS
European ferry group Stena Line has planned much for the future and drafted a comprehensive sustainability strategy. Its commitments here concentrate particular- ly on five of the UN goals for sustainable development: Gender equality, affordable and clean energy, health/ wellbeing, sustainable consumption, and production/ life underwater. On the basis of these targets, Stena Line is re-positioning itself in all areas of its business. It has already established itself as a pioneer in reducing emissions.
Here Stena Line is already ten years’ ahead of the aims defined by the IMO – International Maritime Organisa- tion. “We aspire to be the spearhead of sustainable shipping. For that, in the long term we need, not just to become more efficient, but also to break away from dependence on fossil fuels and reduce our total emis- sions. We are therefore setting ourselves the target of saving 30 percent CO2 by 2030, and reaching zero CO2 by 2050,” says Stena Line CEO Niclas Mårtens- son. The ‘Stena Elektra’ should be an important mile- stone on the company’s path to climate neutrality. The first completely electric ferry will be plying along the 50 nautical miles Gothenburg and Frederikshavn from 2030. Yet the ‘Elektra’ will be only one small piece in the whole strategic jigsaw, since reducing emissions sustainably will require action on many fronts. Addi- tional alternative fuels such as methanol and hydrogen, for example, are already being investigated and tested.
As part of a pilot project, in June this year it was possi- ble to refuel the ‘Stena Germanica’ for the first time with recycled methanol from the steel industry. Digitalization also plays an important part in reducing emissions for Stena Line. For example, the company is equipping more and more vessels in its fleet with the AI assistant Stena Fuel Pilot. “This technology helps our captains to discover the most energy-efficient route at any one time and to save up to five percent in fuel per section of the route,” explains Erik Lewen- haupt, Head of Sustainability for Stena Line. “Our stra- tegic approach is therefore clear: We are working in parallel on reducing both fuel consumption and emis- sions, but also in investigating tomorrow’s fuels and technologies.”
GREEN GIANTS
Vehicle exports are booming. Used vehicles, especial- ly, are being shifted out of the EU into African develop- ing countries – by sea on RoRo, RoPax and ConRo ves- sels. As a Mediterranean and Africa specialist, Italian shipowner Grimaldi Lines here serves an ever-growing market for Hamburg. Grimaldi too must adjust to rising volumes for shipment and is already introducing such innovative solutions as hybrid vessels on to the market. Only at the beginning of this year, the Naples-based group ordered six new ships that are to be put into ser- vice in the NW Europe-West Africa trade. The compa- ny is having a total of twelve novel, environment-friend- ly ships built. “The new series of Ro/Ro-multi-purpose
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