JLR taps into UECC’s low-emission shipment service for CO2 savings

Luxury vehicle manufacturer JLR will purchase emission reductions from Norwegian shipping company United European Car Carriers.

PHOTO: UECC's LNG-capable dual-fuel vessel AUTO ECO. UECC

United European Car Carriers (UECC) offers a low-emission shipment service that allows customers to purchase emission reductions equivalent to shipments made on its liquid biomethane (LBM)- and biofuel-powered vessels.

This low-emission shipment service "allows for mass balancing of emission reductions within the UECC network," UECC’s energy & sustainability manager, Daniel Gent told ENGINE last September.

As per the agreement, UECC will bunker five of its LNG dual-fuel vessels with LBM or bio-LNG. The bio-LNG will be supplied by Titan Clean Fuels at the Port of Zeebrugge using the mass balance method.

Mass balancing, in this context, “entails injecting biomethane into a natural gas grid, where it is combined with natural gas using a mass balance system,” Caspar Gooren, renewable fuels director at Titan Clean Fuels told ENGINE last May.

Titan offers B25, B50 and B100 – where B25 is 25% biomethane blended with 75% LNG and B100 is a 100% biomethane component delivered to a vessel. UECC currently uses B100 for bio-LNG on its vessels, Gent informed.

UECC has agreed to purchase a minimum of 12,000 mt of LBM this year and expects to save up to 75,000 mtCO2e/year from its use across Europe, according to the company website.

It will then allocate some of these savings to JLR, even if the automaker’s actual shipments are made on fossil-fuelled vessels. JLR will use these purchased emission reductions to offset the emissions across its supply chains.

By Konica Bhatt

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