The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a green and digital shipping corridor between Singapore and San Pedro Bay.
The three ports will come together with the C40 Cities network and other stakeholders in the maritime and energy value chains to jointly accelerate the decarbonisation of the maritime industry in line with the goals of International Maritime Organization’s (IMO), and Singapore’s and the US’ respective Nationally Determined Contributions.
The MoU was signed by Teo Eng Dih, Chief Executive of MPA, Gene Seroka, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director and Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Port of Long Beach.
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The green and digital shipping corridor aims to support the transition to low – and zero-emission fuels by ships calling at Singapore and the San Pedro Bay ports complex.
The parties will work to facilitate the supply and adoption of these fuels and explore the necessary infrastructure and regulations for bunkering.
C40 will act as the facilitator of the green and digital shipping corridor, providing support to the cities, ports, and its corridor partners by providing communications support in furtherance of the corridor’s goals.
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“Curbing greenhouse gases from international shipping is essential to fight global warming,” said Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Port of Long Beach.
“Creating this green corridor with our partner ports and C40 Cities is part of our strategy to coalesce all of our efforts here and beyond to help advance our goals for cleaner marine fuels for oceangoing vessels, improve efficiencies for the global movement of goods, and to achieve a carbon-neutral future,” Cordero added.
The MoU follows from an earlier announcement in November 2022, that Singapore, Long Beach and Los Angeles ports, and C40 Cities had begun discussions to establish a green and digital shipping corridor between Singapore and the San Pedro Bay ports complex.
This shipping corridor comes as part of a greater pattern in the shipping industry towards decarbonisation.
More recently, the Port of Los Angeles partnered with the largest port in China to establish the world’s first Transpacific green shipping corridor.
