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Triple di Maersk Line is included in the list of the one hundred solutions for the construction of a sustainable society
It is defined by the not governmental organization international Sustainia
July 3, 2012
The new portacontainer from 18.000 teu, so-called Triple (Economy of scales, Energy efficiency and Environmentally improved), of the company of Danish navigation Maersk Line are included in the Sustania100, the list of the one hundred solutions for the construction of a defined sustainable society from the foundation Sustainia, international the not governmental organization that has introduced own proposal during the Rio+20 summit, the promoted international conference from the United Nations on the sustainable development that has been shut 22nd june to Rio de Janeiro.
The new ships, than Maersk Line it will employ the next year beginning from, in fact will be constructed with technologies in a position to controlling the polluting emissions and to head for the energy saving; moreover they will be equipped of a passport "Cradle to Cradle", a certificate of origin, composition and environmental risks of all the materials used in the construction. At the end of the life-cycle of the ships, this document will afford a sure and echo-sustainable recycling of the steel, that it composes beyond 98% of the structure of the portacontainer.
Maersk Line has emphasized that for every container transported on one of Triple the issued amount of co2 will be of 50% inferior regarding the average of the ships used on the route between Asia and Europe: in other words, for every shoe, reader Mp3 or camera who will be transported by Far East to the Old Continent the carbon dioxide emissions will be of beyond 20 inferior times regarding how much producing from the aerial transport.
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The new portacontainer from 18.000 teu, so-called Triple (Economy of scales, Energy efficiency and Environmentally improved), of the company of Danish navigation Maersk Line are included in the Sustania100, the list of the one hundred solutions for the construction of a defined sustainable society from the foundation Sustainia, international the not governmental organization that has introduced own proposal during the Rio+20 summit, the promoted international conference from the United Nations on the sustainable development that has been shut 22nd june to Rio de Janeiro.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
