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Maersk Line will exclusively buy container with pavements in wood certifyd from Forest Stewardship Council
Initiative in order to contrast illegal deforestation
May 24, 2011
The company of Danish navigation Maersk Line has announced the decision not to buy more container with pavement constituted from not certifyd tropical hard wood. "Illegal deforestation - the responsible Clima and Ambiente of the company has explained, Jacob Sterling - unanimously is recognized to be a serious threat for the forests, the people and the fauna. We feel ourselves in it must use our purchasing power for giving an impulse to the increase of the standards and in order to assure that the timber used for the pavements of the container comes from responsible silviculture".
Every used tropical hard wood for the container will be certifyd by Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The first container with certification FSC is produced last month by the Chinese plant Maersk Container Industry (MCI) to Dongguan. Moreover the Danish company will acquire also container with pavements realized without timber, as those in bamboo or recycled plastic.
Maersk Line has remembered that the companies of endowed navigation normally use container of pavements of tropical wood and that two cubic metres of wood in order to produce pavements for three are necessary container from 40 feet. The industry of the containerized transport uses annually about 1,2-1,5 million cubic metres of hard wood in order to satisfy the question of new container.
Maersk up to now 64,000 Line has announced to have acquired container that respects the new standards adopted from the company. In next the five years the Danish shipowning society previews to buy about three million container (teu), more than doubling its current fleet, and previews that within 18 years, period that constitutes the average life of a container, all its fleet of container will be equipped of certifyd pavements.
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The company of Danish navigation Maersk Line has announced the decision not to buy more container with pavement constituted from not certifyd tropical hard wood. "Illegal deforestation - the responsible Clima and Ambiente of the company has explained, Jacob Sterling - unanimously is recognized to be a serious threat for the forests, the people and the fauna. We feel ourselves in it must use our purchasing power for giving an impulse to the increase of the standards and in order to assure that the timber used for the pavements of the container comes from responsible silviculture".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
