DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight unit of Deutsche Post DHL Group, and GoodShipping are further expanding their partnership with the latest purchase of approximately 60 million litres of Sustainable Marine Fuel.
GoodShipping is a market leader in insetting to decarbonize the container shipping industry by changing the marine fuel mix.
DHL said in a statement that with the new purchase, it will reduce a total of 180,000 tonnes of TtW-CO2e on both FCL and LCL shipping until 2024.
This commitment is equivalent to the amount of marine fuel burned by 10 container vessels on their journey from Asia to Europe.
"In 2017, we were the first logistics company to work with GoodShipping. An important lever in reducing our CO2 emissions is the use of sustainable fuel and GoodShipping's insetting service complements us perfectly in this regard. They have a thorough and controlled process, meet our high sustainability standards, and they share the same goal of making logistics emission-free," said Tim Scharwath, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding.
DHL Global Forwarding has been working with GoodShipping for five years, sharing the same aspiration for greener ocean freight via insetting.
As part of their joint industry impact, DHL Global Forwarding and GoodShipping also aim to pilot a new insetting accounting framework of the Smart Freight Centre.
The new framework transfers the approach of allocating emission reductions from sustainable fuels to specific customers by decoupling the accounting of the fuels' environmental attributes from their physical flow to a general industry standard.
This will allow DHL customers to contribute to and report on emission reductions in their transport value chain even if the reduction is not physically linked to their specific transport activity.
"DHL Global Forwarding really steps up as a frontrunner in the freight forwarding industry with this commitment," says Dirk Kronemeijer, CEO GoodShipping. "DHL's goal to achieve net zero-emission logistics by 2050 made them a perfect partner for a strategic and mutually beneficial long-term collaboration."
DHL noted that its GoGreen Plus service will pave the way for the transition to clean and sustainable transportation.
GoGreen Plus is part of the DHL Group's mid-term sustainability roadmap for 2030 and contributes to the sub-target of having at least 30% of fuel requirements covered by sustainable fuels.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, the Group also pledged to spend EUR 7 billion on sustainable fuels and technologies by 2030.
