DFDS' environment chief: I ask myself how slow steaming can work

"If it's that obvious, why don't you just start," says DFDS' environment chief, Poul Woodall, to shipping companies planning on using slow steaming to reduce CO2 emissions. The ferry operator has a proposal for how planning could reduce one route's emissions by 40,000 tons per year.
Photo: DFDS - PR
Photo: DFDS - PR

Poul Woodall agrees that there is money to be saved on some routes by sailing slower, as advocated by companies such as Trafigura and GoodBulk last week, and which the container industry in particular has been using for some years now. But this does not at all apply to every segment in the industry.

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