Shipping community entity set to improve roro emissions accounting and mitigation

Growing demand for reliable vessel emissions data has led to the international roro shipping industry to set up a governance body and framework for collating and analysing greenhouse gas (GHG) information.

A collection of roro carriers, independent verifiers, cargo owners and other stakeholders set up the Global Ro-Ro Community (GRC) Council under a programme established by Smart Freight Centre to reducing GHG emissions in the logistics sector.

A formal governance framework has since been introduced for the continuous review and improvement of emissions accounting methodologies and data handling rules.

The GRC Council anticipates this would strengthen the reliability and transparency of GHG emissions data while improving emissions management and decarbonisation efforts throughout the supply chain.

Data collation and handling across the roro sector should be aligned with emissions accounting and environmental information methodologies.

Participating companies in the GRC account for around 80% of the transport capacity of the global vehicle carrier fleet and are working to establish an industry-wide emissions data platform.