Carbon footprint
Although marine transportation is considered an efficient method of transportation, there is however still a carbon footprint that results from each container moved. By using SeaCell2 due to the units ability to carry extra pallets, cube and payload, the resultant carbon foot print is reduced as fewer SeaCell2‘s are needed to carry a given quantity of cargo.
As a result of the efficiency of SeaCell2 there are further down line potential benefits which would improve an operators green image. More palletised cargo and more cargo in general loaded into each container would result in a fewer number of containers moved, this would remove pressure from ports and maritime infrastructure and reduce the need to develop ever more capacity to cope with increasing container volume.
The benefits of more pallets, more cubic capacity and extra payload all mean that shippers and forwarders can reduce their transportation cost by using SeaCell2 units, compared to the cost of using standard boxes. As more cargo can be carried in each SeaCell2, fewer containers are needed to carry a given quantity of cargo.
This saving is not restricted to ocean freight and goes all the way down and up the transportation chain. If for example 60,000 Euro pallets of cargo are to move from China to Europe the following savings could be identified. A SeaCell2 can carry 60 Euro pallets (30 double stacked) and a standard container only 50 (25 double stacked), consequently for 60, 000 pallets of cargo 1000 SeaCell2’s would be needed, compared with 1200 standard boxes.
The 200 extra standard containers needed would each have the following extra costs.
- Depot handling out of China depot
- Drayage from depot to factory
- Cost of and extra time taken to fit dunnage and lashings to prevent pallets moving in these 200 units and for the 1000 non Sea2 units
- Drayage from factory to port
- Terminal handling cost China
- Freight, CAF, BAF and insurance China to Europe
- Terminal handling cost Europe
- Drayage from port to warehouse
- Time taken to remove lashing and dunnage and cost of disposal of the dunnage for the 200 units and the 1000 non Sea2 units.
- Drayage from warehouse to port (majority of boxes are returned empty from Europe to China)
- Terminal handling cost “empty” Europe
- Cost of empty return to China
- Terminal handling cost “empty” China
- Drayage to depot in China
- Depot handling in China depot
Similar savings can be made for non palletised cargo and heavy payload cargo, but here the percentage savings are smaller, but still significant. As an example if a shipper was moving 100,000 cubic metres of cargo he would need 1265 SeaCell2 units 44 less than the 1309 standard boxes that would be required.
| |
Container vessel |
Rail |
Truck |
Boeing |
| |
11,000
teu |
6,600
teu |
Electric |
Diesel |
Heavy |
747-400 |
| Energy use, kWh/tkm |
0.014 |
0.018 |
0.043 |
0.067 |
0.018 |
2 |
| Emissions, grams per tkm: |
|
| Carbon Dioxide CO2 |
7.48 |
8.36 |
18 |
17 |
50 |
552 |
| Sulphur Oxide NO1 |
0.19 |
0.21 |
0.44 |
0.35 |
0.31 |
5.69 |
| Nitrogen Oxide NO1 |
0.12 |
0.162 |
0.1 |
0.00005 |
0.00006 |
0.17 |
| Particulate Matter |
0.008 |
0.009 |
n/a |
0.008 |
0.005 |
n/a |