Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), the newest member of the Smart Freight Center (SFC), has joined the community.

Smart Freight Center is a non-profit international organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its mission is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from freight transportation.

SFC provides guidelines for decarbonization of logistics by visualizing GHG emission and making recommendations for reducing transportation.

It also promotes collaboration between various organizations and associations involved in international logistics.

The goal is to achieve zero emissions by 2050 and keep the global temperature increase average below 1.5degC.

SFC recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Green Marine, an environmental certification program for North American and European maritime industry, to support the decarbonization.

The center welcomed Japanese shipping giant NYK to its ranks last month.

MOL promotes initiatives to address environmental and other issues as part of its decarbonization program. The company wants to accelerate this initiative throughout its value chain.

One of the newest projects of the company is installing wind propulsion on a total seven newbuilding bulk carrier and multi-purpose vessel. MOL Group now has nine Wind Challenger equipped vessels, bringing its total to eleven.