AtoB@C Shipping and EFO, a joint venture of Swedish energy companies, have committed to a set of measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from their sea transports. The initiative will involve substituting 10% of the annual fuel consumption of EFO’s shipments with renewable alternatives, resulting in a projected 8.5% reduction in lifecycle emissions.
“We are pleased to have found in AtoB@C Shipping a shipping company that not only shares our long-term vision but has also provided us with a tangible solution today to begin reducing our emissions immediately”, says Andreas Ukmar, CEO at EFO.
In addition, the companies have agreed to implement Virtual Arrival as a standard operational practice to optimise the speed of the vessels when there is a known delay in port. On average, Virtual Arrival has reduced voyage emissions in AtoB@C Shipping’s traffic by 11% in the voyages it has been applied for.
"We are excited to partner with EFO in advancing greener shipping practices. Renewable fuels are crucial in mitigating shipping emissions", says Frida Rowland, Commercial Director at AtoB@C Shipping.
So far two voyages have been performed with 100% renewable fuel under this contract with state-of-the-art plug-in hybrid vessel Electramar unloading the second cargo in Oxelösund, Sweden last week.
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For more information, please contact:
Frida Rowland
Commercial Director, AtoB@C Shipping & ESL Shipping
mob. +46 70 817 3620, firstname.lastname@atobatc.se
About AtoB@C Shipping
AtoB@C Shipping is an innovative shortsea operator transporting bulk and breakbulk cargoes for industrial clients. Our success is based on operational excellence and long-term client contracts which form the backbone of our operations. We operate a fleet of modern, well-maintained, multipurpose vessels in 4,000-6,000 dwt segments. Our whole fleet is ice-classed ensuring our ability to secure product and raw material transportation for our industrial clients all year around, even in difficult weather conditions. AtoB@C Shipping was founded in 2000 and has been part of ESL Shipping since 2018. Together the group has over 40 vessels with cargo capacity ranging from 4,000 to 25,000 dwt.
About EFO
We like to describe ourselves as change-makers in the world’s energy cycle. The ones closing the loop. The ones offering a solution to handle the ever-growing challenge of waste.
A proportion of the waste that our society generates every day, can be reused, or recycled into new products, and that is no doubt the best way to handle waste; to let it back into the circular economy. However, some of the waste is hazardous and needs specialized treatment in a very controlled way, the bulk of residual waste being generated worldwide today must be either landfilled or incinerated, whereas landfill space is becoming more and more scarce as the European Union has deemed landfilling a non-viable solution.
At EFO we offer solutions to this problem on a global basis, by bringing their residual waste to our owners, with state-of-the-art energy from waste facilities enabling us to handle residual waste and at the same time as creating valuable electricity and heat for homes and offices, a highly valued resource in a northerly country like Sweden with its long and cold winters. This capability, to turn residual waste into heat and electricity, does not apply everywhere. It needs the infrastructure of a district heating network, to distribute and make use of the heat generated, why in many countries, residual waste is incinerated without benefitting from the heat generated during the process.
Our owners are all part of the EFO community, where sharing and exchanging information, both makes us stronger individually and as a group.