REG-TOTAL Total Joins the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping

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04/02/2021 09:45

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Total Joins the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping

 

Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) joins today the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
Center for Zero Carbon Shipping as a strategic partner and accelerates its
R&D program for carbon neutral shipping solutions in line with its
commitment to work together with its key customers to get to Net Zero.

Based in Copenhagen, the Research and Development center is a private
initiative, launched with the support of the A.P. Møller Foundation, to
promote and contribute to the decarbonization of the maritime industry.

This partnership will allow Total to join forces with leading players across
the shipping sector to develop new low-carbon alternative fuels and carbon
neutrality solutions. As a member of the Advisory Board, Total will aim at
providing strategic and technical guidance for the development of the Center
activities.

“This partnership with the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center is completely
aligned to our R&D marine fuels program aiming at net zero carbon
emissions. By gathering shareholders across the full chain, this center will
accelerate the development of sustainable solutions for shipping. Total will
actively contribute to projects through secondments of technical experts and
knowledge sharing. We truly look forward to this new collaboration,”
underlines Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Chief Technology Officer, Total.

“We are very proud of this new cooperation, in line with our Climate
Ambition to get to Net Zero by 2050. As a broad energy company, we are
actively working on improving the environmental footprint of our customers in
the maritime industry and today we reaffirm our support to this key sector.
The Center will pave the way towards a greener shipping for the benefit of the
whole industry as well as for our own chartering activities,” declares Luc
Gillet, Senior Vice President Shipping, Total Trading & Shipping.

“We are very pleased to welcome Total as a strategic partner of our Center.
Decarbonizing shipping can only be achieved through comprehensive
collaboration across maritime and energy sectors. Total shares our vision of a
zero-carbon maritime industry and acknowledgement of the vast effort required
to get there. In joining the Center, they bring onboard vital experience and
knowledge contributing to establish projects and activities that will
accelerate the development of tomorrow’s solution,” says Bo Cerup-Simonsen
CEO of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center.

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About Total

Total is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels, natural gas
and electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is
more affordable, more reliable, cleaner and accessible to as many people as
possible. Active in more than 130 countries, our ambition is to become the
responsible energy major.

About the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping

The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping is a
not-for-profit, independent research- and development center working across
the energy- and shipping sectors with industry, academia and authorities. With
Partners, the Center create overview of viable decarbonization pathways,
facilitate the development and implementation of new energy technologies;
build confidence in new concepts and their supply chains; and accelerate the
transition by defining and maturing viable strategic pathways to the required
systemic change. The Center is placed in Copenhagen but work with partners
globally.

The Center was founded in 2020 by American Bureau of Shipping, A.P. Moller -
Maersk, Cargill, MAN Energy Solutions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NYK Line
and Siemens Energy and made possible by a start-up donation of DKK 400m by the
A.P. Møller Foundation.

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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center 

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