DP World handled 60.9 million teu in the first nine months of 2023, though a far smaller – yet just as significant – number is on the mind of Piotr Konopka, Group Vice-President for Energy Programmes. The global port operator’s Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are in the region of 6.5 million tonnes, with half tied up in the third.
“The strategy is in the early days, we’ve reached out to suppliers with questionnaires, learning about their decarbonisation journeys and seeing where it is that we can help them. It’s a very different picture from region to region – in Europe you’re sometimes spoilt for choice,” he told H2 View, on the sidelines of the Climate Action Innovation Zone during COP28 in Dubai.
One clear picture is that these are testing times for the shipping industry. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) aims to reach at least a 40% reduction in the carbon intensity of shipping by 2030, compared with 2008. The larger part of this reduction would come from the use of alternative fuels such as biofuels, e-methanol, e-ammonia and hydrogen.
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