How to define sustainable shipping

Summary:

Shipping refers to the long-range transportation of most materials and goods available to people. Maritime freight transport can also regard various finished products, usually transported in containers.

Trying to make shipping sustainable

The concept of sustainable development applied to the shipping sector is called green shipping. This means that the transport system incorporates environmental and social responsibility.

According to an OECD report, a total decarbonization of the sector may occur by 2035 if the following options are combined:

• 1.Technological measures, through improving energy efficiency and storage;
• 2.Operational measures, including slow steaming (reduction of the vessel speed);
• 3.Renewable energy, by developing the use of biofuels or wind power.

Shipping refers to the long-range transportation of most materials and goods available to people. In this brief article there is a basic summary of how shipping and transport must also be adapted to the new green economy avoiding as much as possible environmental damage to the Planet. At SeaforChange we are working on our Sea on a Motorway towards this goal, considering this type of transportation sustainable.