Tata Steel became the first Indian company to use clean fuel Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) powered Capesize carriers for its raw material movement from Australia to India, reports ET Energy World.
Scope 3 carbon footprint
In an initiative to lower the company’s Scope 3 carbon footprint, the steel major imported 1,65,700 metric tons of coal from Australia’s Gladstone to Dhamra port in Odisha using MV Ubuntu Unity, a cape vessel powered by clean fuel LNG.
‘Capesize’ is the largest class of cargo ship. They are called so as they cannot pass through the Panama Canal and have to go around the Cape of Good Hope to sail between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Source: ET Energy World
