Pacific International Lines (PIL) and PSA International (PSA), supported by DNV, have launched Singapore’s first joint land-sea green service for cargo transhipped through the Port of Singapore.
PIL Chief Commercial Officer, Lionel Patrice Chatelet said, “PIL is advancing maritime decarbonisation by leveraging carbon insetting as a practical and impactful lever within our own value chain. By investing in initiatives that directly reduce or remove emissions across our operations, PIL ensures that emissions reductions are real, measurable, and closely tied to our business activities. This approach not only accelerates progress toward our climate targets but also enables customers to access lower-carbon shipping solutions.”
The new service will give shippers and cargo owners a practical way to reduce their Scope 3 emissions, which are all indirect emissions that occur in the various activities related to running an organisation and providing goods or services. Scope 3 emissions relate to such matters as purchased goods, business travel, employee commuting, and waste disposal among others. Scope 1, by way of comparison, looks at such matters as fuel combustion, and Scope 2 at purchased electricity, heat and steam. Scope 1-3 emissions sum-up to represent the total carbon emissions from a business. The concept originated from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a standard created by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
The new service enables participating shippers and cargo owners to achieve verifiable emissions reductions through the allocation of carbon reductions generated from the use of lower-carbon fuels across multiple modes of transportation within the logistics, shipping and port operations, PIL said in a statement. Trials for this service are scheduled to begin May.
