Hapag-Lloyd lands ZEMBA’s first tender for green ocean shipping

In Singapore, ZEMBA announced the successful conclusion of its first tender for ocean shipping that achieves at least a 90% reduction of greenhouse gases on a lifecycle basis relative to fossil fuel powered service. Through this deal, more than a dozen ZEMBA members including founding members Amazon, Patagonia, and Tchibo alongside Bauhaus, Brooks Running, DB Journey, Green Worldwide Shipping, lululemon, Meta, New Balance, Nike, REI Co-op, and Sport-Thieme have collectively committed to purchase the environmental attributes associated with over 1 billion twenty-foot shipping container-miles of zero-emission shipping on a route from Singapore to Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2025-2026.

Hapag-Lloyd, one of the world’s leading container shipping companies, was selected as the winner of ZEMBA’s inaugural tender. At the conclusion of contracting, ZEMBA expects members to collectively avoid at least 82,000 metric tons of CO2e over two years through Hapag-Lloyd’s independently certified and exclusively waste-based biomethane service.