CEVA Logistics has unveiled a new low-carbon Less Than Container Load (LCL) ocean freight service connecting France to Ivory Coast. This weekly service, operating from the French cities of Rouen, Marseille, and Lyon to the port of Abidjan, uses marine biofuel to achieve a significant reduction in carbon emissions up to 84% less CO₂ compared to traditional ocean shipping.
The initiative is part of CEVA’s broader FORPLANET platform, which was launched in November 2024 to support environmentally responsible logistics across multiple transport modes. The new LCL route is designed to provide a climate-friendly shipping option for businesses moving smaller cargo volumes, without compromising on reliability or transit times.
Greenhouse gas emissions
The service maintains a consistent weekly schedule, with a transit time of approximately 24 days from Rouen to Abidjan. By using marine biofuel, CEVA ensures that greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced over the full lifecycle of each shipment, while maintaining high operational standards and vessel performance.
This initiative reflects CEVA’s commitment to helping global supply chains lower their environmental impact, particularly along trade routes with growing strategic importance like Europe to West Africa. The company’s Managing Director for West Africa and Overseas Territories, Paul Bernard, emphasized that the service offers customers a greener shipping alternative while maintaining the performance they expect.
The low-carbon LCL service is just one element of CEVA’s FORPLANET offering, which also includes sustainable aviation fuel for air freight, electric and biofuel-powered trucks for road transport, emissions tracking tools, and strategies for shifting freight to more efficient modes.
In 2024 alone, CEVA reduced over 26,000 tons of CO₂ emissions through the use of more than 10 million litres of sustainable marine and aviation fuels. This comprehensive sustainability approach enables customers to tackle Scope 3 emissions and align with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, while making measurable progress toward decarbonizing their logistics operations. The new service to Abidjan reinforces CEVA’s investment in sustainable growth corridors and its broader mission to provide low-emission freight solutions on a global scale.