‘Less empty container movement will cut CO2’

FINDING more efficient ways to utilize empty shipping containers to limit their movement around the globe will significantly lower CO2 and other green-house gas emissions, the head of a major intermodal firm said.

Jesús García López, the chief executive officer of Cadiz, Spain-based Connectainer Intermodal Solutions, said that about 21 percent of all containers moved per year are empty, and that the percentage stays fairly constant, so that as the total number of containers shipped each year increases, so does the number of empties.