{"id":1859,"date":"2019-09-03T08:59:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T05:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meriaura.fi\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2019-09-03T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:58:14","slug":"meriaura-brings-out-climate-neutral-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/meriaura-brings-out-climate-neutral-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meriaura brings out climate neutral contracts powered by biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Meriaura and Stockholm Exergi sign a contract of nearly CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>neutral sea transport<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meriaura and and Stockholm Exergi have signed a contract for the sea transport of woodchips and woodpellets within the Baltic Sea by using \u00a0climate friendly, 100% biofuel as power source. The contract is the first commercial contract based on Meriaura\u2019s 2016 built, biofuel powered EcoCoaster vessels. When operated on waste-based or recycled second generation biofuels, Meriaura\u2019s EcoCoaster vessels are the most climate- and environmentally friendly shipping method that is available today. The lifecycle emissions of the transports can be up to 96% lower compared to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Stockholm Exergi\u2019s goal is to be fully CO<sub>2<\/sub> neutral. In 2018, 86 per cent of district heat distributed was based on renewable sources or recovered energy. The rest was based on fossil fuels, including coal. By 2022, coal should be completely replaced by sustainable sources and the energy production close to 100 % will be based on renewable or recovered energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmissions from shipping and transport will be of greater relative importance as we phase out fossil fuels in our own production. This contract contributes to the development of transport solutions on our way towards 100 % carbon neutrality\u201d comments Ulf Wikstr\u00f6m, Head of Sustainability at Stockholm Exergi.<\/p>\n<p>Meriaura starts offering to all its customers an option to sign for low-emission contracts against a small premium, which equals to the price difference between MGO and EcoFuel. Meriaura engages to source, produce and use EcoFuel at least the amount that equals to the total consumption of the voyages executed under the contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe door is now opened, and we are eager to promote this concept for our other customers as well. Step by step we can change the shipping business to become sustainable\u201d says Beppe Rosin, the Managing Director of Meriaura. Meriaura will also provide calculations on CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>reductions achieved by choosing this contract-type. \u201cOur hope is that such data can be used further in the value-chain and help our customers to create added value for their end-products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864\" src=\"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meriaura-brings-climate-neutral-shippingcontracts-to-market.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meriaura-brings-climate-neutral-shippingcontracts-to-market.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meriaura-brings-climate-neutral-shippingcontracts-to-market-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meriaura-brings-climate-neutral-shippingcontracts-to-market-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meriaura-brings-climate-neutral-shippingcontracts-to-market-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mikael Jarlhammer and Niklas Sunden, Chartering Managers from Stockholm Exergi and Beppe Rosin and Petri Ylikangas from Meriaura are shaking hands after signing the contract of low emission transport of woodchips and pellets.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further information please contact:<\/p>\n<p>Beppe Rosin, Managing Director, Meriaura Ltd.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tel +358 50\u00a0557 4323\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0beppe.rosin@meriaura.fi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meriaura and Stockholm Exergi sign a contract of nearly CO2\u00a0neutral sea transport &nbsp; Meriaura and and Stockholm Exergi have signed a contract for the sea transport of woodchips and woodpellets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meriaura.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}