In response to Ms. Benson’s touch upon “Sluggish Steaming (SS) or Tremendous Sluggish Steaming (SSS) for Container Delivery Half II”

Half I

Half II and Ms. Benson’s Remark

It’s inevitable to chop standard reefer ships due to the comfort of reefer containers loading, unloading & transporting amongst completely different modes of transportation. Yntze Buitenwerf, the managing director of Seatrade, the largest reefer operator, primarily based in Antwerp, mentioned on Monetary Occasions  that “In 10 years’ time the general world (refrigerated) fleet may solely be half of what it’s in the present day” however they’ll preserve a job of shifting delicate cargoes that containers can’t completely match into.

If manufacturing of reefer containers can’t sustain with present demand, we might even see delay retiring on standard reefer ships.

From automotive revolution to ocean delivery revolution…

Similar to the intense excessive oil value in 2007 & 2008 dashing up the event of plug-in hybrid (Toyota Prius), electrical automobiles (Nissan Leaf) & hydrogen automobiles (BMW Hydropower 7), the not-too-far $100 oil will little question set off technological revolution on each single elements of logistics trade.

We already heard that:

1. Carbon dioxide primarily based refrigerated container

Service Transicold introduces its latest container refrigeration unit design, NaturaLINE™, utilizing carbon dioxide (CO2) as a substitute of standard artificial hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants “which have greater world warming potential.”

2. L.N.G. & dual-fuel vessels

Wartsila, a Finnish producer of enormous diesel and fuel engines, has been growing with Samsung on “dual-fuel expertise” that enables ships to function on Liquefied Pure Gasoline (L.N.G.) as the first power to energy engines sooner or later.

3. Inexperienced ports

The Port of Los Angeles put in photo voltaic panels to energy cruise ships which are docked.  It estimated a 1-megawatt (MW) photo voltaic panel system will generate 1.2 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of fresh photo voltaic electrical energy that can be utilized instead of the diesel turbines usually run on ships whereas berthed.

In addition they began utilizing world’s first hybrid electrical tugboat (named Carolyn Dorothy) which proves to “scale back emissions of soot by about 73 %, oxides of nitrogen (which assist trigger smog) by 51 %, and carbon dioxide, which contributes to world warming, by 27 %.”

All of those improvements (& many extra not reported right here) are aimed toward decreasing our dependency on oil, shifting to green-energy consumptions, and reducing inexperienced home gases emission.

Brian Chan

brian@universalcargo.com