Climate change and clean shipping are a global challenge. By acting together, we can accomplish the mission to significantly reduce our carbon footprint.
As Hapag-Lloyd, we are committed to making it easier for you to avoid emissions and actively contribute to sustainability.
Ship Green is the easiest way for you to make an impact! With the additional service you get the option to directly book an emission-reduced shipment online – tailored to your requirements.
Simply add Ship Green to your existing Hapag-Lloyd booking, reduce 25, 50, or 100% emissions of the ocean leg of each shipment, and join us in our efforts of making shipping climate neutral.
Find the Ship Green fees here.
Proactively and directly reduce your CO2e footprint by adding biodiesel to your or your customer’s shipment.
Anytime, anywhere, and no long-term commitment. Easily avoid carbon emissions via the self-service in the Online Business Suite.
Freedom to choose between three different options tailored to your requirements – avoiding 25, 50 or 100% emissions.
With Ship Green you can actively avoid well-to-wake emissions by contributing to the switch to biofuel within our fleet. In line with the industry standard, we replace up to 30% of conventional marine fuel oil bunkered on a vessel with biofuel.
As Hapag-Lloyd, we source biofuel responsibly. All biofuel that is being used for Ship Green is sourced from certified supply chains and produced from waste- or residue-based feedstock, such as brown grease or used cooking oil. Thereby, we, guarantee that no edible virgin oils are included in the fuel.
ISCC provides certification systems for the supply chains of sustainable materials like biofuel. Through the ISCC proof of sustainability documentation, we ensure that the procured biofuels are compliant with the legal requirements regarding sustainability and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings set out in the Renewable Energy Directive (REDII).
Henrik Schilling, Managing Director Global Commercial Development![]()
“We invite all of our customers to avoid emissions by proactively choosing their own contribution to climate-neutral shipping through our new service, Ship Green.”
Climate change is a global phenomenon, and all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contribute to global warming, no matter how they occur. Ship Green’s impact is based on the “Book and Claim” chain of custody. This means that, as Hapag-Lloyd, we burn biofuel within our fleet and book the resulting emissions avoidance into a “stockpile” of emissions avoidance. If you add Ship Green to your shipment, we allocate the required amount of emissions avoided from the “stockpile” to your shipment and you can claim the avoided emissions.
The resulting emissions avoidance is then allocated to individual shipments. Through precise accounting, Hapag-Lloyd ensures that no emission avoidance is double claimed. You can be sure that your Ship Green booking actually avoids emissions – anywhere on the planet, even in areas where alternative fuels are not physically available.
Ship Green is available for all confirmed bookings, whether you have placed them via the Hapag-Lloyd Online Business Suite, EDI, iNTTRA, or any other channel. Each booking reduces the emissions footprint by 25, 50, or 100% of the ocean leg of each shipment.
Sustainability needs transparency. Therefore, you receive a quarterly Ship Green Declaration that states the emissions avoidance for your bookings.
Hapag-Lloyd ensures that it has burned the respective amount of biofuel necessary to execute the service and thus saves emissions directly within its fleet.
The emissions avoidance calculation is based on the renowned Clean Cargo Initiative Emissions Accounting Methodology. This method is the standard in the liner shipping industry and is widely applied by carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers.
The implementation of the process behind the Ship Green Declaration has been verified by an independent verifier in 2022.
We’ve made it our mission to lead the shipping industry on the path to sustainability.
Hapag-Lloyd’s fleet will be converted to carbon-neutral operation by 2045. Before we get there, we have the interim target of reducing the CO2e intensity of our entire fleet by 30% (compared to 2019) and by 60% for our own fleet (compared to 2008) by 2030.
This is embedded in our overall sustainability strategy.
Find out more about our sustainability strategy here in the sustainability section on our website.
With Ship Green, you join us on the path towards climate neutral shipping. Together we can make sustainability a reality.
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