CMA CGM to offer biomethane for customers from May 2021

The CMA CGM Group is supporting the production of 12,000 tonnes of renewable green gas biomethane to offer to customers as the group takes further steps towards carbon neutrality.

Biomethane, a non-fossil energy, will be available for customers from May 2021 via the ‘Act with CMA CGM+’ range of services.

Biomethane is a renewable green gas produced in part by the methanation of European-sourced organic and plant waste.

The 12,000 tonnes of biomethane is equivalent to two 1,400-TEU LNG-powered ships on the Northern European Balt3 line between St. Petersburg and Rotterdam for a year.


Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, said, “We have crossed a new step with the launch of the first low-carbon shipping offer based on biomethane.

“We know that there is still a long way to go to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement. Achieving these goals do not rely on a single solution but on a set of initiatives and new technologies complimentary to each other.”

Guarantee-of-Origin Biomethane, coupled with CMA CGM’s dual-fuel gas-power technology, can reduce well-to-wake (entire value chain) greenhouse gas emissions (including CO2) by at least 67%.

On a tank-to-wake basis, at ship level, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reaches 88% (including CO2).

ACT with CMA CGM+ provides a full range of services designed to enable its customers to analyze, reduce and offset their environmental footprint.

By 2022, 32 of the Group’s vessels will be LNG-powered.

The Group cut its overall CO2 emissions by 4% in 2020, following a 6% reduction in 2019.

Since 2008, the Group has lowered its CO2 emissions per container-kilometer by 49%.

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