Biofuel – Eni and MSC work collectively to realize decarbonization
San Donato Milanese (MI), 25 November 2024 – As we speak, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi and MSC Group President, Diego Aponte, signed a memorandum of understanding geared toward growing joint initiatives within the subject of sustainability and vitality transition.
Eni, an built-in vitality firm dedicated to the vitality transition in the direction of carbon neutrality by 2050, and MSC, a world chief in transport and cruise providers, intend to increase the scope of their already fruitful enterprise relationship to a broader geographic context and, particularly, to areas referring to sustainability and decarbonization of their operations.
The settlement consists of the potential use of LNG in addition to lower-carbon vitality carriers, corresponding to HVO and bio-LNG biofuels, in addition to lubricants from renewable uncooked supplies, to be used on MSC fleets devoted to each logistics and cruise transport. Renewable vitality options will probably be assessed to contribute to the decarbonization of MSC’s websites and services. Extra usually, the settlement goals to create new synergies between the 2 firms’ operations, from logistics providers to intermodal transport, overlaying each agro-industrial actions for the manufacturing of uncooked supplies, together with Agri feedstock, for biorefining, and the storage and transport of HVO biofuels via modern intermodal sea, rail and street transport options. Different analysis areas concern the assist for decommissioning of nationwide and worldwide offshore platforms, joint analysis and improvement initiatives and collaborations within the Open-es framework, the platform and system alliance launched by Eni for value-chain sustainability.
The settlement offers for good round financial system practices, from the on-board use of plastics additionally from renewable and recycled uncooked supplies, together with single-use packaging merchandise, to the gathering and administration of waste produced on board the fleets, and the potential redevelopment of decommissioned Eni areas and property.
Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, commented:
There are a lot of components of our financial and industrial techniques the place we should act to cut back emissions. The one method to succeed is by uniting the talents, sources and applied sciences throughout a spread of stakeholders, for a widespread intervention in every of those key areas.
“This settlement marks the beginning of our collaboration with MSC within the decarbonisation of transport and cruise providers. MSC is the world chief within the sector and we’re assured that collectively we can develop and implement decarbonisation initiatives, that present an essential contribution to the sector and to the discount of emissions from our transport techniques.”
Diego Aponte, MSC Group President, commented:
At MSC we’re targeted on reaching a profitable vitality transition and to do that we’d like the companions we will belief and depend on.
“Eni has been one among these companions for a few years and this MoU is a welcome and pure evolution of our relationship. We sit up for working extra carefully with Eni as we broaden and deepen our method to sustainability and decarbonization throughout the MSC Group of firms.”
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