Shipping operations

Hamburg Süd has established a variety of measures that serve to protect the environment and go beyond statutory requirements. Energy saving, slow steaming, ballast water and tests to reduce sulphur dioxide levels are just a few of the key points we go into here.

Energy

On the user side, too, there are meaningful measures that can be taken to ...

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Slow steaming

In addition to specific pollutants, every instance of combustion generates the ...

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Sulphur

In 2010 the "Cap San Lorenzo", a Hamburg Süd ship, made a very practical ...

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Routing

Bad weather increases vessel resistance. This extends voyage times and raises ...

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Ballast water

Empty runs or fractional loads are uneconomical, but also have concrete ...

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Disposal

In the lower section of a ship’s hull – in the bilge – water collects which ...

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