16.9.2024
The future of shipping: Green transport corridors
Cargo shipping and transport account for a significant part of global emissions, and reducing them is crucial to protecting the environment. Despite high costs and uncertainty about investments in environmentally-friendly technologies, there are advantages for the transport sector to invest in sustainable alternatives. By reducing emissions, particularly Scope 3 emissions, companies can enhance their competitiveness. Scope 3 emissions are indirect emissions in an organisation’s value chain.
A concept for bringing together different actors in the transport sector, such as cargo owners, ship owners, ports, logistics companies, fuel suppliers and technology providers, are green transport corridors. The aim is to jointly create an economically sustainable transition to low-emission shipping.
“What is particularly interesting at the moment is the opportunity to fully electrify shipping,” says Magnus Gustafsson, Head of Research, Laboratory of Industrial Management at Åbo Akademi University.
Companies and transport stakeholders will be gathering at a conference on green transport corridors in Turku on 18–19 September 2024. The aim is to discuss cooperation and the development of sustainable solutions for certain specific corridors. The conference hosts are Åbo Akademi University and the PBI Research Institute.
The first day of the conference will focus on the business opportunities offered by green transport corridors and the second day on green transport technologies, with a particular focus on electrification. Speakers include Dani Lindberg, Sustainability Manager & DPO, Viking Line, and Eero Hokkanen, Ministerial Adviser at the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
One of the world’s first green maritime corridors was recently established between Turku and Stockholm. The project was a collaboration between Åbo Akademi University, Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC), Viking Line and Kempower. The objective was to modernise Viking Line vessels and install batteries to reduce fuel consumption and methane emissions.
Read more on the conference programme.
Contact:
Magnus Gustafsson, Head of Research, Laboratory of Industrial Management, Åbo Akademi University
040 554 0507
magnus.gustafsson@abo.fi