Svitzer to modify to biofuels in Port of Esbjerg, Denmark
To contribute to the decarbonisation of transport and the port of Esbjerg’s ambition to be carbon impartial by 2030, Svitzer’s tugs working within the Port of Esbjerg (Denmark) will change to biofuel as of February 1, 2025. Which means from this date, Svitzer tugs will likely be crusing on HVO and clients utilizing Svitzer’s towing providers out and in of the port will likely be topic to EcoBAF, which is wanting Ecofriendly Bunker Adjustment Issue.
Mathias Jonasson, Managing Director, Svitzer Scandinavia:
At Svitzer, we’re dedicated to decarbonising our operations which should be carbon impartial by 2040.
“We will solely obtain this ambition by working with like-minded companions and clients. I’m each proud and excited that Port of Esbjerg and Grimaldi share our dedication to creating cleaner operations to learn native communities and nature in Esbjerg and the West Coast of Jutland.”
Dennis Pedersen, CEO of Esbjerg Port:
Port of Esbjerg has signed up for the “Attending to Zero Coalition” and thereby dedicated to changing into CO2 impartial by 2030, or in simply 5 years.
“We’ve come far, however we rely on our clients transitioning to inexperienced biofuels to ship on this ambition absolutely. We acknowledge that transitioning to biofuels comes with extra prices for our clients utilizing our port amenities. However it’s a needed subsequent step within the inexperienced transition; that’s why I’m very grateful that each Grimaldi and Svitzer perceive this and can now use cleaner fuels.”
Paul Kyprianou, Exterior Relations Supervisor of the Grimaldi Group:
The Grimaldi Group shares the objective of zero emissions and has made important investments in direction of reaching this objective, together with ordering nearly 40 ships within the final seven years, with CO2 emissions halved in comparison with earlier constructions.
“We take into account the EcoBAF method as a necessary a part of the decarbonisation journey inside transport the place our Group performs a central position as one of many main gamers within the trade.”
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