Maersk Line wins Lloyds List Environment Award

The Lloyd’s List Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Awards 2012 was recently held at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai. The delegation from Maersk Line was thrilled to be named the winner of the Environment Award.

The award was given for Maersk Line’s Sustainability Progress Report 2011, aka “Route 2”, and the innovative website that accompanied it. The jury’s explanation for choosing Maersk Line was as follows:

“Maersk Line introduced a new level of transparency on its sustainability initiatives to ensure that customers have a real choice on the environment. The effort did indeed set a new level of transparency that could help the industry follow suit. Openly criticizing the shipping industry for lacking disclosure on environmental performance, they offer a high degree of data granularity, allowing customers to see the effect of CO2 emissions and efforts to reduce them will have across their supply chains.”

Earlier this year, Maersk Line launched its sustainability progress report “Route 2” with a message to the industry: New and higher standards are needed. Maersk is charting a more sustainable course by focusing on raising the bar for the industry, delivering less CO2 per shipment and ensuring best CO2 data in the industry.

Timothy Paul, Maersk Line’s Sustainability Manager in the West Central Asia Liner Operations Cluster (WCA LOC), accepted the award on stage on behalf of Maersk Line, saying, “This is great recognition for Maersk’s environmental efforts and acknowledges our Centre colleagues’ superb efforts in developing a high caliber sustainability progress report ‘Route 2’!”

Rob Brummer, head of the WCALOC, was equally delighted, saying, “This award puts us in the right spot to further develop sustainability in the WCALOC region.” < Korea Shipping Gazette >