{"id":6563,"date":"2012-03-05T12:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2012-03-05T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:30:41","slug":"shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping giant sees biofuels in its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jg.net\/article\/20120305\/BIZ\/303059979\/1031\/BIZ\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6566\" title=\"Shipping giant sees biofuels in its future\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/120305_ship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>A.P. Moeller Maersk, the world\u2019s biggest container ship owner, is leading its industry in developing biofuels made from organic waste that could cut its carbon emissions and reduce a $6 billion annual fuel bill. Maersk is conducting tests with two Danish universities to develop clean fuels tailored for ships and has worked with the U.S. Navy to run vessels using fuel produced from algae, encountering \u201cvery few problems,\u201d said Jacob Sterling, head of climate and environment at Maersk, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. \u201cThe beauty of biofuels is that they work with the engines as they are today,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a very, very strong link between reducing emissions and reducing costs.\u201d The efforts represent some of the most advanced work in the shipping industry to restrain greenhouse gases as the European Union works to broaden its carbon cap-and-trade system. Shipping accounts for about 3.3 percent of CO2 emissions, said Drewry Shipping Consultants. That\u2019s more than the 2 percent to 3 percent produced by airlines, now included in the EU rules. Maersk is a \u201cfront runner\u201d among companies seeking to drive down pollution, said Ana Davila Martinez, consultant for corporate distribution and logistics at Heineken. The Dutch brewer is among brands including Adidas, Wal-Mart Stores and Volkswagen that select their shipping supplier based on sustainability, Sterling said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jg.net\/article\/20120305\/BIZ\/303059979\/1031\/BIZ\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: A.P. Moeller Maersk, Adidas, Wal-Mart Stores, Volkswagen | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jg.net\/article\/20120305\/BIZ\/303059979\/1031\/BIZ\" target=\"_blank\">journalgazette.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.P. Moeller Maersk, the world\u2019s biggest container ship owner, is leading its industry in developing biofuels made from organic waste that could cut its carbon emissions and reduce a $6 billion annual fuel bill. Maersk is conducting tests with two Danish universities to develop clean fuels tailored for ships and has worked with the U.S.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,93,19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ppr","tag-volkswagen","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}