Better port calls to bring down shipping's costs and carbon footprint

With a newly established company, the crucial junction of the Port of Rotterdam aims to optimize port calls to reduce costs and, not least, shipping's CO2 emissions. But it will take time to convince companies to share data, director tells ShippingWatch.
Dita Bruijn, PortXchange director of operations | Photo: PR-FOTO
Dita Bruijn, PortXchange director of operations | Photo: PR-FOTO

Annually, waiting to call at ports across the world costs the shipping industry billions of US dollars and innumerable tons of CO2.

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