The Global Ro-Ro Community (GRC) has announced guidelines for calculating GHG emission intensity for RoRo ships, aiming to reduce emissions in the logistics sector.
The GRC includes Eastern Car Liner Ltd., Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA, and ClassNK. This announcement comes in conjunction with the international non-profit organisation Smart Freight Centre (SFC).
The new guidelines introduce a common calculation method, enabling shippers to accurately measure Scope 3 emissions, and will further promote decarbonisation in the shipping industry.
In recent years, interest in carbon emissions (carbon footprint) throughout the lifecycle of products and services has been increasing.
The six members participated in the GRC hosted by SFC and developed a standard model for calculating GHG emissions through open discussions, ensuring fairness and transparency with stakeholders involved in RoRo ships (shipping companies, shippers) and third-party verification organisations.
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The standard model complies with the ISO 14083 and GLEC (Global Logistics Emissions Council) framework and was announced at the SFC annual event “Smart Freight Week” held in Amsterdam in March.
In the future, the SFC plans to collect actual data on environmental performance on a ship-by-ship basis and publish average high-precision emission intensity data for the industry.
Consequently, the initiative is seen as a cross-industry first step towards decarbonising global logistics and a key contribution to promoting measures against global warming.
In similar developments, DP World issued the first certificates from its Carbon Inset Programme, launched in January 2025, with over 150,000 import containers registered to date. This initiative aims to provide importers in the UK the ability to reduce hard-to-abate Scope 3 carbon emissions from their containerised supply chains.
