Tanja, thank you so much for joining us.
Can you talk about the work you're doing right now in
sustainability?
So we're working with the decarbonization of the shipping
industry.
And let me set that a little bit into context. Because 90% of all
the world's goods are being transported by ship today, which
means that you have 100,000 commercial ships at sea, which
is equivalent to 3% of the world's emission.
And it was out of this background or picture that the
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping was
born.
We are an independent, not-for-profit,
technology-agnostic institution that is working on innovative
research and collaboration, where we work together with our
industrial partners—which are some of the largest companies in
the world—on finding actionable solutions for a more sustainable
world.
And can you elaborate more
on what exactly is zero-carbon shipping?
Yes, well, unfortunately there's not a magic wand.
So we need to work on four different parameters.
We need to have new alternative views at scale, both on the
demand and supply side.
We need to work on wider adoption of energy efficiency
measures.
We need to work on policies and regulations.
And finally, we need to show the world that it is possible.
So we need to work on demonstration projects. And in
our case specifically, that is around green corridors. And
green corridors are shipping routes that are sailing on
alternative fuels, showing that we can actually do it.
And so why are partnerships so important in these initiatives?
Well, no one can do this huge transformation, this historical
transition that we need to have, no one can do it by themselves.
So there you have to collaborate, you have to form
partnerships.
And honestly, we have some of the largest players in the world
and they're all leaning in.
They're sharing data, they're sharing knowledge, they're
sharing experiences with their fiercest competitors, sitting
together in our center, working on technical solutions.
And so what would your advice be to leaders who are right now
pursuing green growth?
Well, I would say nobody has done what we need to do now
before. And I strongly urge even more collaboration, more
partnerships, because that's the only way that we can do the very
systemic changes that are needed.
And then I would also really strongly encourage to do
long-term investments.
Shipping is very short term, but we need to change that and work
more long term.
Thank you so much.