Decarbonising logistics and services
To deliver on our climate commitments, we work to increase the use of renewable electricity and green fuels in our landside operations. In 2023, we launched ECO Delivery Inland, we improved energy efficiency in warehouses, and we expanded our deployment of electric trucks, amongst other things.
Why inland decarbonisation matters
The rapidly growing need for end-to-end logistics solutions and heightened expectations for sustainable supply chains are driving demand for more road, rail, warehouse and air decarbonisation solutions. These are reflected in our commitments to increase our adoption of renewable electricity and/or green fuels in these operations.
Our ambition
We will deliver an emergency response to the climate crisis and take leadership in the transformation of the transport and logistics sector to climate neutral operations.
Highlights in 2023
Priorities and actions
Our customers’ increasing requirements for end-to-end logistics solutions, and the need for sustainable supply chains, make our logistics and services value chain emissions a priority. Our actions in this area focus on inland transportation, contract logistics and cold chains, and air freight.
Inland transportation (truck, rail, barge)
Contract logistics and cold chains
Air freight
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Decarbonising landside logistics
Maersk is investigating both existing and emerging trucking technologies from battery electric to fuel cells and hydrogen. We currently see battery electric becoming the dominant energy system. Transitioning our landside transportation however presents challenges beyond technology. Maersk is dependent on our suppliers’ willingness to invest in green assets, and on energy providers and energy infrastructure for green power.
Addressing these challenges will likely require Maersk to rethink how we engage with suppliers, partners and customers to effectively de-risk capital investment across the value chain and incentivize the scaling of these technologies until the end of the decade, when we forecast cost of ownership for electric trucks to reach parity with fossil fuels.
Maersk builds state-of-the-art cold storage facility
During 2023, Maersk constructed the Hamilton, New Zealand 16,000 sqm site of fully convertible temperature-controlled space during 2023, to begin operations early 2024.
It can provide storage for over 21,000 pallets of cold chain products and integrate cold store with depot and intermodal connections, to provide end-to-end storage, fulfilment, distribution and inland transportation services for New Zealand import and export customers.
The facility has 5-star Green Star accreditation, and is powered by green energy through solar panels. It also has an environmentally friendly CO2 cooling plant and rainwater harvesting, and was built with a low carbon construction policy.
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