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CMA CGM's low-carbon offering, CLEANER ENERGY LNG, will allow the cargoes to be shipped on CMA CGM's dual-fuel LNG-powered vessels, while also benefitting from a share of guarantee of origin biomethane, allowing a 25 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions on a well-to-wake basis for the entire value chain, reports London's Port Technology International.

The CMA CGM Group makes alternative fuels such as LNG, biomethane and biofuels available to all customers, and allows them to take control of their environmental performance through ACT with CMA CGM+.

CMA CGM has chosen to invest in dual-fuel gas powered vessels that run on LNG, avoiding up to 99 per cent of atmospheric pollutant emissions. LNG is an important first step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the engines installed on these vessels are already capable of using BioLNG (liquefied biomethane, reducing 67 per cent of CO2 emissions on a well-to-wake basis).

In the coming years, those engines will use synthetic methane (including e-methane). The CMA CGM Group already has a fleet of 27 'e-methane ready' vessels in service and will have a total of 44 such vessels by the end of 2024.

By 2023, alternative fuels will account for 10 per cent of the CMA CGM Group's fuels.

Earlier this month CMA CGM Group and Shanghai International Port Group Co (SIPG) successfully achieved the LNG bunkering of CMA CGM SYMI, a 15,000 TEU Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) LNG-powered containership.