Global Shipping CO2 Emissions Dropping Each Year

Every year CCWG carriers report on vessel specific environmental performance data to BSR via a standard template and based on the CCWG CO2 methodology. The aggregated data is provided to shipping customers via individualized carrier scorecards.

The following data reports on over 2,900 ships calculated from 23 of the world’s leading ocean container carriers, collectively representing around 85 percent of ocean container capacity worldwide. These results are based on primary data from vessels operating during the calendar year.

Our 2014 annual release indicates that average CO2 emissions per container per kilometer for global ocean transportation routes have declined by more than 7.7 percent from 2012 to 2013 and by over 22 percent since 2009.

While changes in carrier representation or global trade conditions likely explain a portion of these results, the continued performance improvement is also attributed to carrier fleet efficiency and data quality, both of which have direct benefits for shipping customers.

Over the years CCWG has developed the CCWG CO2 methodology which has been tested and approved by the CCWG members. The general objective of the CCWG CO2 methodology is to:
establish a robust and user-friendly industry standard on how to collect, calculate, and use  CO2 emissions data for ocean container transportation based on actual (primary) performance data directly from container carriers.

Source: BSR