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Environmental Goals and Commitments
Climate Change and Our Business
Biodiversity
Environmental Initiatives

Highlights

Investing in New Technologies
New technological advancements to lower fuel consumption and thus, reduce emissions to air.

Reducing Our Plastic Footprint
In 2018, Swire Shipping set out on our journey to reduce the use of Single-Use Plastics.

Eco-Office and Green Guidelines
Our employees adopt Eco-Office practices to help reduce Swire Shipping’s carbon footprint.

Managing Director’s Message

In the medium and longer term our single most vitally important goal is to decarbonise our operations in a world that is suffering from the effects of man-made global warming. We have thus adopted our parent group’s goal of reducing our carbon footprint to zero by 2050.”
James Woodrow
James Woodrow Managing Director, Swire Shipping
We have the robust and necessary targets in all areas critical and material to us: People, Safety, Environment, Partners and Governance to assist us on our sustainability journey to 2050. In the medium and longer term our single most vitally important goal is to decarbonise our operations in a world that is suffering from the effects of man-made global warming.
James Woodrow
James WoodrowManaging Director, Swire Shipping
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See 2020 Sustainable Development Report for full message

Environmental Successes

for the calendar year 2020
  • Reduction of 38,446 tCO2 through T&O measures
    Improved fuel efficiency through the implementation of various Technical and Operational measures
  • 99.59% reduction of Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles (SUPWBs)
    Significant reduction of the use of SUPWBs by the Swire Shipping fleet
  • 217.83 tonnes of recyclable waste recycled
    Our Moana Taka Partnership moved low value waste out of the Pacific to be recycled
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1,840,063

y-o-y reduction
8.26%
Scope 1*

382

y-o-y reduction
4.24%
Scope 2*

2,514

y-o-y reduction
56.29%
Scope 3*

6.499

y-o-y reduction
13.88%
EEOI

*Metric tonnes (t) CO2e / Includes Swire Shipping and Swire Bulk

We are committed to a target of zero pollution incidents and our ultimate goal is for our operations to have a net zero impact on the environment and its biodiversity.

Swire Shipping has set in place an internal intensity target, the IMO’s Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) – the energy we expend moving one unit of cargo over one nautical mile. Swire Shipping’s target is 3% more aggressive than the IMO’s target.

Our Swire Shipping liner fleet achieved 24% reduction at the end of 2020, from our baseline.

Swire Shipping’s EEOI progress since 1st January 2015

UoM: grammes of CO2 per Notional Revenue Tonne of cargo carried over one nautical mile

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