Sea Freight Containers - Carbon Footprint?

Question

Hi

Does anyone know where I can find the carbon footprint of 20 ft and 40 ft sea freight containers moving between Europe and the USA?

Answer 1

When it comes to the delivery of merchandise, the total carbon footprint is roughly equivalent to how much fuel it takes to get your products where they need to be. Luckily (for this analysis) parcel shipping costs are intimately tied to the total fuel cost. The more efficient the shipping is, the smaller the footprint, and the cheaper the shipping cost. Ground and sea cargo are cheaper than air; bulk or freight shipping is cheaper than individual parcel delivery.

Please check the link I have provided for you for calculalting carbon footprint:

http://www.maerskline.com/link/?page=bro...

Alvin

Answer 2

I can give you a rough guess.   We took on around 10,000 tons of fuel to travel between Tacoma, Oakland, Honolulu, Guam, Hong Kong, Taiwan and back to Tacoma WA.    35 day trip making power and water for 21 people plus moving 2500 twenty foot equivalent containers at twenty plus miles per hour.