Shippers are turning away from — or “blanking” — liner services with high carbon emissions.

Customers of Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) are, for the first time, opting not to use liner services ranked as high carbon-emitting, a senior executive claimed.

TradeWinds reported in June that the major forwarding and logistics group had begun to rank some of its main east-west liner services according to their carbon footprint.