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four-stroke diesels, and gas engines, elec-
tric motors, solar panels and eventually
sails will be employed.
“Reaching a zero-emission goal
requires more than just vision,” said Derby,
who remarked that the company reduced
its total CO
2
emissions by 32 percent in
2009. “Practical application of technology
in each new generation vessel will continue
to bring WWL one real step closer.”
Richard L. Sheckells, Jr., Chief of
Environmental Initiatives for the Maryland
Port Administration (MPA), has noted that
“reducing environmental impacts through-
out the entire supply chain is likely to be a
key to cargo growth in the seaport industry
of the future.”
Sheckells added, “Baltimore’s position
as an inland seaport already provides an
inherent environmental advantage; cargo
remains on a deep draft vessel for a greater
portion of the trip. Deep draft vessels are
the most emission efficient way to move
cargo. Having private sector partners with
the vision of WWL is critical to transforming
a seaport’s current thinking and practices
while balancing the important issues of
cost and competitiveness.”
WWL has collaborated with a number
of important initiatives, including the
Baltimore Port Alliance Environmental
Committee, and the advisory board of
the Maritime Environmental Resource
Center, which, according to Sheckells, is
evaluating various ballast water treatment
technologies.
WWL operates more than 40 terminal
and technical service facilities worldwide.
Each one has taken environmentally friendly
steps such as rainwater collection for water
use in Zeebugge, buildings constructed from
recycled concrete and rock in Melbourne,
and electric yard vehicles used in Baltimore.
In the next two years, the shipping giant
will take the proven green initiatives from
each facility and implement them wherever
feasible throughout its global network.
WWL hopes to achieve a zero-emissions
terminal goal by 2020. This vision is named
the “Castor Green Terminal” because cas-
tor is another word for beaver, an animal
whose industrious life is conducted on both
land and water.
Logistics operations are facing legisla-
tion-driven changes in the next five years,
and WWL is optimizing its supply chain to
use intermodal transitions efficiently.
Together, these initiatives will continue
to improve the environment. “It is an
ambitious long-term path we are taking,
and we are confident that it is the right
one,” Derby says.
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