McAllister Towing completes inaugural sustainability report

Working along with ABS, McAllister Towing, has launched its inaugural sustainability report, showcasing its efforts to scale back its environmental influence and spotlight its social and governance efficiency.

ABS specialists labored with McAllister’s group to supply greenhouse fuel stock and sustainability reporting companies, calculating the operational carbon depth and benchmarking the efficiency of the McAllister fleet of greater than 60 vessels, together with tugboats, passenger ferries, offshore provide vessels, crew boats and barges in over 13 places alongside the U.S. East Coast.

“Traders are more and more incorporating Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG) dangers and alternatives into their funding selections. ABS is uniquely geared up to assist shoppers enhance their ESG reporting with our worldwide community of sustainability specialists who’re actively engaged with the newest compliance initiatives and indexing measures. We’re proud to help McAllister and have a good time on this event of its inaugural ESG report,” mentioned Panos Koutsourakis, ABS Vice President, International Sustainability.

The report covers subjects corresponding to McAllister’s fleet profile, emissions discount methods, security tradition, group engagement and future targets.

“McAllister is happy to supply our inaugural sustainability report,” mentioned McAllister’s president Brian Buckley McAlllister. “McAllister has constantly decreased its emissions depth over 40 p.c up to now 15 years, with improvements in emissions know-how, operational controls, together with sensible and prudent engineering options. McAllister has additionally taken nice strides in restoring coastal properties that weren’t useable, by remediation of soils with dangerous pollution, discount of wastes, and recycling of our belongings for the success of synthetic reefs in U.S. coastal waters.”