Currently, the transportation sector accounts for more than 26.3 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. In the case of Spain, the figure rises slightly to 30.9%. In a world where the fight against climate change dominates all public and private agendas, logistics is already starting to do its homework before the effects become irreversible on a global scale.
Right now, transportation in particular, and the logistics sector in general, are attempting to devise a strategy to achieve long-awaited sustainability. We have already discussed ecology in transportation at Indochinapost, and we are working to reduce the impact of emissions on our maritime and air transport services.
The three major challenges you face are as follows:
- Energy conservation. All manufacturing sectors must find the most environmentally and economically sustainable propulsion energy.
- It bets on modality, or the search for and development of more sustainable modes and modal combinations. The railway development that many large companies are promoting is especially important in this section.
- Improved operation of all innovations in order to reduce environmental impact. This is not an easy task because we are still reliant on fossil fuels.
2020 International Maritime Organization
While the impact of the climate summit on the balance sheet is still being calculated, the maritime industry has already begun the countdown to the use of low-sulfur marine fuel beginning on January 1, 2020. This means that over 50,000 merchant ships must reduce their current 3.5 percent to less than 0.50 percent.
The majority of the demand for bunkers will shift away from high-sulfur fuel oil and toward more sustainable fuels. According to some experts, the transformation of the global fleet will necessitate careful planning on the part of shipowners, charterers, crew, and refineries.
