{"id":11023,"date":"2024-02-26T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipowners.fi\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:12:32","slug":"biofuel-reduces-the-climate-impact-from-a-green-sea-conference-by-90-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipowners.fi\/en\/biofuel-reduces-the-climate-impact-from-a-green-sea-conference-by-90-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Biofuel reduces the climate impact from a Green Sea Conference by 90 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viking Line\u2019s latest sustainability innovation, the Green Sea Conference, reduces greenhouse gas emissions from a conference trip by an average of 90 per cent and satisfies the desires of environmentally conscious corporate customers. Each year about 600,000 passengers travel with groups or conferences on Viking Line\u2019s vessels, and all aspects involved in a sea conference have now been subject to a comprehensive sustainability assessment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sea conferences have regained their previous popularity after several years of the COVID pandemic. This year, Viking Line\u2019s conference capacity on its Helsinki route is being further expanded, when Viking Cinderella returns to Finland, working in tandem with Gabriella. Sea conferences on Viking Line\u2019s vessels are usually arranged for groups with fewer than 30 people, but meetings for 300\u2013500 people are also held frequently. Sometimes major sea seminars can host up to one thousand participants.<\/p>\n

Viking Line is now launching its Green Sea Conferences, a new sustainable alternative for conference planners. Greenhouse gas emissions per participant are on average 90 per cent lower for a Green Sea Conference than for the normal conference product. Green Sea Conferences are offered on all departures on the two climate-smart vessels, Viking Glory and Viking Grace, in service on the Turku route.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers choose sea conferences above all to combine work and pleasure in a cost-effective way, keep the group together and at the same time meet people\u2019s need for physical meetings, a need that has become stronger in recent years. With our new conference product, we can provide all this in such a way that the carbon footprint of their conference trip is small,\u201d says\u00a0Philip Sj\u00f6strand<\/strong>, Head of Sales at Viking Line.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmissions from a Green Sea Conference are lower because customers who have opted for such a journey travel using renewable biofuel. We have also carried out a detailed sustainability assessment of the other components that are part of a conference trip. Each year more than 19,000 group and conference events with a total of some 600,000 participants are held on our vessels. This means every choice that increases sustainability makes a big difference,\u201d says\u00a0Marika<\/strong>\u00a0Immonen<\/strong>, Head of Customer Experience at Viking Line.<\/p>\n

Everyone who takes part in Viking Line\u2019s conferences can see the sustainable choices that are made, including the organic coffee served in the conference facilities, the preference for information provided digitally rather than in printed form, the restaurants\u2019 use of locally sourced ingredients based on seasonal availability, and an ambitious focus on reducing food waste. All waste generated on Viking Line\u2019s vessels is recycled, and food waste is recirculated as raw material for biogas on most of the company\u2019s vessels.<\/p>\n

Viking Line\u2019s corporate customers were involved from the very start in the work to develop the company\u2019s Green Sea Conferences. Conference planners who opt for this package get a carbon footprint report for their trip if they wish.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach year, companies set increasingly ambitious sustainability goals, and it has also become more and more important to employees that their employer\u2019s business is sustainable. By choosing a Green Sea Conference, such conference planners are pioneers and can be certain that the emissions from their conference have been minimized. As early as last summer, we started giving our leisure travellers the option of choosing biofuel,\u201d says Viking Line\u2019s Sustainability Manager,\u00a0Dani Lindberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Viking Line\u2019s environmental journey<\/p>\n

1980s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Viking Line\u00a0stops using\u00a0toxic paint for the bottoms of its vessels,\u00a0and divers start cleaning vessel bottoms.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Recycling waste on board the vessels begins.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0First\u00a0land-based power supply is placed in service in\u00a0Stockholm. Today a land-based power supply is\u00a0also used in Helsinki, Mariehamn and Tallinn.<\/p>\n

1990s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The switch to fuel with a low sulphur content\u00a0reduces\u00a0sulphur dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The wastewater on board the company\u2019s vessels starts being pumped ashore for treatment.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Cold seawater is used to cool the ventilation air on board the vessels,\u00a0and the air on board is heated using energy recovered from flue gases.<\/p>\n

2000s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Viking Line is the first shipping company in the world to use\u00a0Humid Air Motor technology to\u00a0reduce\u00a0nitrogen oxide emissions.\u00a0By using seawater for cooling,\u00a0the combustion temperature of the vessel\u2019s engines is lowered.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nitrogen oxide emissions\u00a0on\u00a0Viking Cinderella\u00a0are reduced\u00a0when catalytic converters are installed on the vessel.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Recycling of organic waste starts on board Viking XPRS.<\/p>\n

2010s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The new vessel Viking Grace uses\u00a0100% sulphur-free liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a fuel.\u00a0The climate-smart vessel reduces nitrogen emissions by 85% and greenhouse gas emissions by 15% compared to a vessel that runs on oil. With LNG, there are essentially zero\u00a0particulate matter\u00a0emissions.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Viking Grace tests a rotor sail, thus becoming\u00a0 the world\u2019s first hybrid vessel to use both LNG and wind power.\u00a0The vessel is equipped with an\u00a0energy recovery system that converts surplus heat into electricity.<\/p>\n

2020s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Flow regulators are installed on\u00a0Viking Gabriella and Viking XPRS, which\u00a0reduces fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The new vessel Viking Glory\u00a0is placed in service in March 2022. The vessel\u2019s engines enable optimal fuel utilization and do not produce any sulphur emissions.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Thanks to Viking Glory\u2019s Azipod steerable propeller-mounted propulsion system, the vessel is easy to manoeuvre in port, which saves time and fuel.\u00a0The shape of the vessel\u2019s hull reduces the formation of waves as well as fuel consumption.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Viking Glory is\u00a0also a pioneer in utilizing waste cooling from LNG. The energy recovery system generates up to 40% of the electricity the vessel needs for passenger functions.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Viking Line starts offering passengers on\u00a0Viking Glory and Viking Grace the option to purchase biogas\u00a0equivalent to the amount used for their own travel and thus reduce emissions generated by their travel by an average of 90%.\u00a0Starting in early 2024, climate offset is also included in the company\u2019s Green Sea Conference package, which can be purchased for conference trips on the Turku route.<\/p>\n

For further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philip Sj\u00f6strand, Head of Sales<\/p>\n

philip.sjostrand@vikingline.com, tel.\u00a0+358 400 667 868<\/p>\n

Johanna Boijer-Svahnstr\u00f6m, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications<\/p>\n

johanna.boijer@vikingline.com, tel.\u00a0+358 18 270 00<\/p>\n

Christa Greenlund, Press and PR Manager<\/p>\n

christa.gronlund@vikingline.com, tel.\u00a0+358 9 123 51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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