The Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), an initiative of Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV) facilitated by the Aspen Institute, which includes the likes of IKEA, Nike and Amazon as founding members, has selected the winner of its first tender.
ZEMBA announced Hapag-Lloyd had won the two-year contract to ship goods on voyages that achieve at least a 90% reduction of greenhouse gases on a lifecycle basis relative to fossil fuel powered services. Through this deal, more than a dozen ZEMBA members have collectively committed to purchase the environmental attributes associated with over 1bn container-miles of zero-emission shipping on a route from Singapore to Rotterdam in 2025-2026. ZEMBA expects members to collectively avoid at least 82,000 metric tonnes of CO2e over two years through Hapag-Lloyd’s independently certified and exclusively waste-based biomethane service.
“To reach our goal of net-zero ship operations by 2045, we need partners like ZEMBA to support us on our decarbonisation journey and push the boundaries of what’s possible,” said Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd.
