The food business operator Orkla Suomi, the transport company Scandic Trans and Viking Line have launched scheduled freight service with transport that runs on biofuel. Transport emissions along the green freight corridor that stretches from Fågelmara, Sweden to Turku, Finland are 90 per cent lower than previously, reports Viking Line.
Biggest ketchup factory
Felix ketchup, produced by the Orkla Group in Fågelmara, began to be shipped to Finland using green biofuel in July. The transport chain starts at the biggest ketchup factory in the Nordic region, with Scandic Trans lorries from Korsholm driving to Viking Line’s terminal in Stadsgården, Stockholm. The lorries then cross the Archipelago Sea on the climate-smart Viking Glory and Viking Grace and deliver their load to Orkla’s logistics centre in Turku.
For each shipment, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced from 1,512 kilogrammes to 102 kilogrammes. That means an annual decrease in emissions of about 190 tonnes.
“Lowering emissions has long been a key issue for road transport, so we have focused on introducing HVO biofuel. Now that it is also possible to use biofuel in the maritime part of the transport chain, the emissions reduction is revolutionary. And the most important thing is that biofuel can be used on a large scale, and the environmental impact can be reported for each transport mode. The transport sector’s reputation is not the best on environmental issues, so it is important to show that sustainable alternatives are available,” says Mikael Löfqvist, CEO of the transport company Scandic Trans.
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Source: Viking Line
