The Sea Cargo Charter, a global framework for assessing and disclosing the climate alignment of chartering activities, is seeking more shipowners to come onboard the green movement.
Signatories to the charter released an annual report yesterday covering 2022, showing the disclosure of emissions data from shipping companies’ activities. The emissions data for last year showed no improvement over 2021’s figures, highlighting the significant challenges ahead for shipping on its path towards decarbonisation.
Eman Abdalla, vice chair of the Sea Cargo Charter Association and global operations director at Cargill Ocean Transportation, urged more shipowners to sign up.
“To make our voice louder, we are looking to open up our membership scope to not only charterers and cargo owners but also shipowners so that they can join us and make the Sea Cargo Charter a truly industry-wide initiative where we together unite and work towards one global transparent and standardised emission reporting system,” she said, arguing it ought to be in the interest of all industry stakeholders to have common alignment and transparency on emissions.
As well as big-name shippers such as Cargill, Trafigura, Bunge and Shell, the charter does have a few owners signed up including Maersk Tankers, NYK Line, Torvald Klaveness, Eagle Bulk Shipping, Navig8 and Norden.
