Klaveness Combination Carriers ASA (“KCC”) and HUB Ocean have entered into a collaboration on the Ocean Sensitive Areas (“OSA”) initiative to assess how KCC’s shipping operations may directly affect marine ecosystems. The project will aggregate historical trading routes with speed data, and global biodiversity maps, on the Ocean Data Platform by HUB Ocean.
The partnership represents an important step in KCC’s ambition to better understand and manage its biodiversity footprint, and to help shape science-based approaches for environmentally responsible shipping.
Developed by HUB Ocean, the OSA initiative provides a harmonized, global view of marine biodiversity and habitat sensitivity. Rather than focusing only on formally protected areas, OSA integrates multiple data layers on species, ecosystems, and habitats to identify zones that are ecologically significant or vulnerable. When combined with KCC’s sailing data, this allows the project to pinpoint where operations intersect with sensitive marine areas and explore how routing decisions, vessel speed management, and new technologies can help reduce those impacts.
The collaboration will also explore how ecological insight can support KCC’s internal decision-making and external reporting. The aim is to increase transparency on nature-related risks and opportunities, while identifying practical measures such as reducing underwater noise and optimizing routing decisions that can benefit climate, biodiversity, and business performance.
Engebret Dahm, CEO of KCC, comments: “We are pleased to partner with HUB Ocean on the OSA initiative as we explore new avenues that can contribute to improving shipping’s environmental footprint beyond decarbonization. The initiative, alongside others, will give us the opportunity to test new approaches and improve data accessibility in ways that can benefit the wider industry.”
Kimberly Mathisen, CEO of HUB Ocean comments: “We applaud the forward-leaning efforts of KCC in going beyond decarbonization to better understand their biodiversity footprint. Through the Ocean Sensitive Areas initiative on our Ocean Data Platform, HUB Ocean and KCC are working together to unlock new ecological insights from data and translate them into actions that inform decisions across all operational levels.”
Source: Klaveness Combination Carriers ASA
