Transport & Environment exhort the EU to institute a bottom so that the shipping it pays for own emissions of co2



In occasion of the COP25, the Conference of the United Nations on the climatic changes that are on on 13 December from the 2 to Madrid, the organization non-profit Transport & Environment (T&E), whose objective is to promote the sustainable transport in Europe, have introduced an own analysis on the contribution of shipping to the gas emissions to greenhouse effect that is based on the data on the emissions of co2 generated by the marine transport collections from the EU through the system MRV of monitoring, communication and verification of these emissions, data - it has specified T&E - that they are very crude and they demand an ulterior deepening.

The document elaborated from specific T&E, on the base of these data, the contribution to the gas emissions greenhouse of the navigation companies that operate in the field of the containerized marine transport and that, evidently, employs the fleets of greater consistency in the traffics with the European ports. The contribution, according to the T&E analysis, is equally evidently proportional to the number of portacontainer used in the area from these companies.

The T&E document places to the first place between the navigation companies the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that, with 362 ships, the most numerous fleet employed in the region, contributes to the emissions with 11,04 million tons of co2. They follow the A.P. Møller-Mærsk with 335 ships for 8,22 million tons of co2, CMA CGM with 231 ships and 5,67 million tons of co2, the Hapag-Lloyd with 135 ships and 4,32 million tons of co2, the COSCO with 113 ships and 3,71 million tons of co2, the Ocean Network Express (ONE) with 68 ships and 2,32 million tons of co2, the Evergreen Line with 50 ships and 1,48 million tons of co2, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation with 29 ships and 0,80 million tons of co2, the Unifeeder with 32 ships and 0,40 million tons of co2 and the X-Press Feeders with 28 ships and 0,34 million tons of co2.

The analysis of Transport & Environment evidences that first marine carrier, the MSC, figure to the eighth place in the directory of the first ten carbon dioxide producers in the European Union in 2018. The list sees to the first seven places electric power plants to coal, with the first - the situated heat power plant to Belchatow, in Poland - that emits 38,3 million tons of co2, with to the ninth place another heat power plant and to the tenth place the airline Ryanair.

Moreover the analysis emphasizes that there is a wide difference of performance, in terms of medium emissions (grams of co2 for nautical ton-miles), between the standards of planning of the ships and the performances realized from the ships in service. According to T&E, because of this difference of performance half of the marine transport of goods in European Union has produced about 22 million tons of co2 in more regarding how much the same ships would have emitted if they had second operated previewed how much from the standards of planning. The relationship observes that, presuming the same refuse of performances for the remaining part of the fleet employed in the EU, a third party of the marine emissions in the EU could be attributed to this difference of performance. For T&E, "this it evidences the inadequacy of the standards of naval planning as instrument regolator in order to decarbonize the field".

Transport & precise Environment also that the relationship reveals that the quantitative one of co2 emitted in 2018 from the shipping and attributed from this analysis to Holland, Belgium, Norway, Latvia and Estonia turned out greater or comparable to the co2 produced from the national fleet of fleeting motors vehicle of these nations; moreover in France, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden and Finland the emissions of the shipping in the 2018 have turned out greater of the emissions of all the motors vehicle registered in at least ten of the greatest cities than every nation.

The specific document moreover that about 20% of the emissions of co2 of the marine transport they are produced by ships that transport fossil fuel, as coal, crude oil or which liquified natural gas, and that in France, Norway and Latvia this percentage is advanced to a third party of the national marine emissions attributed by the analysis to these nations.

The study concludes recommending the inclusion of the marine transport in the system of the EU for the exchange of quotas emissions of gases to greenhouse effect (ETS) through the institution of a European Maritime Climate Fund with the scope to assure that the field of the shipping pays for the pollution from carbon that it produces. Moreover the document exhorts to impose to the marine transport, in the within of the system MRV, operating standards of the EU on the emissions of co2 to the aim to cut the emissions and to favor the spread of technologies for energy efficiency and fuel to zero carbon emissions.