Conference - Lake Constance residents want climate-neutral shipping by 2040
Shipping on Lake Constance is to be climate-neutral by 2040. Bavaria's Minister for Europe, Eric Beißwenger (CSU), stated this goal at a meeting of the International Lake Constance Conference (IBK) in Munich on Friday. "That would be a model for all European inland lakes." The Free State of Bavaria chaired the IBK this year and focused on the goal of emission-free shipping.
Bavaria commissioned an expert report to demonstrate the possibilities in this area. This proposed 2040 as the target date. "The remaining 16 years are a sensible but also necessary period of time to safely shape the transformation," the paper states. E-methanol is recommended as the main energy source. This fuel should also be increasingly used in deep-sea shipping in the future.
According to the study, more than 38,000 boats with combustion engines are currently registered on Lake Constance, which together produce around 52,000 tons of CO2 per year. According to the study, the emissions are mainly caused by high horsepower pleasure craft, the large ferries on the main traffic routes and tourist passenger ships.
Individual projects have already been initiated in recent years to achieve the goal of climate-neutral shipping. A ferry powered by a gas engine has been operating between Meersburg and Constance for a few weeks now. In future, the car ferry is to be filled with biomethane, making it largely climate-neutral.
The first electric passenger ship has also been in operation since 2022. The Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe (BSB) want to convert the entire fleet by 2035. Baden-Württemberg's Transport Minister Winfried Hermann (Greens) recently announced that there would soon be no more new registrations for combustion-powered boats on Lake Constance. However, he did not specify a concrete timetable.
The IBK has been the joint platform of the governments of the federal states and cantons in the Lake Constance region for half a century. In addition to Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, six Swiss cantons, the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein are also involved. Next year, the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden will lead the conference and aims to further advance the goal of a transport turnaround in the Lake Constance region.
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- During his leisure time, Eric Beißwanger, the CSU representative from Bavaria, recently advocated for climate-neutral shipping on Lake Constance at the International Lake Constance Conference (IBK) in Munich.
- Switzerland, along with Bavaria, Austria, and other participating states, has been actively involved in the IBK's efforts to promote nature conservation in shipping on Lake Constance.
- The shipping industry on Lake Constance, which is heavily reliant on combustion engines, currently produces around 52,000 tons of CO2 annually, primarily due to high horsepower pleasure craft, large ferries, and tourist passenger ships.
- In a bid to promote climate-neutral shipping, Switzerland has already introduced a ferry powered by a gas engine that runs between Meersburg and Constance, which will soon be converted to run on biomethane.
- Bavarian Minister Eric Beißwanger has called for the use of e-methanol as the main energy source in deep-sea shipping, as well as in the boats on Lake Constance, in order to achieve climate-neutral shipping by 2040.
- With the support of the IBK, the Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe (BSB) in Baden-Württemberg has also committed to converting its entire fleet to electric ships by 2035 in order to further reduce emissions and promote tourism in the region.
Source: www.stern.de
