250kg per container — what a programme that actually runs looks like

There is a case at a port where how certificates get issued, and who verifies them, is on the record.

The carbon inset programme DP World runs in the UK started in January 2025 and is still expanding. This is what its own pages say.

What is published

• Issuance for importers raised five-fold, from 50kg to 250kg CO₂e per container
• More than 250,000 TEU registered
• From 1 July 2026 exporters are covered too — up to 10 tCO₂e per exporter, through 31 December 2026
• The verifiers are named: Bureau Veritas and Verifavia
• Scope covers more than 90% of container-ship call emissions, including tugs, pilot boats and terminal operations
• A stated potential of 100,000 tonnes a year if 30% of UK port import volume takes part

No price, but every condition around it

The price itself is not published. What is published is everything you would need in order to ask about the price.

Who issues it. Who verified it. How much is attached to a single unit. How long it stays valid. This is the three conditions on a certificate — time, geography, a ledger — as they look when a real programme implements them.

What to take into a Korean review

Reviewing a similar programme here, the checklist comes straight off that list. The issuance unit, the verifier's name, the validity period, and the scope.

A proposal that cannot answer those four is not yet at the stage where price is the question.

※ This article cites published material. The companies and bodies named have no contractual relationship with us.

This article expands one section of LCS EAC special report 2, How the Price Is Set. The full report works from the SABA press release, DP World's own pages and SBTi Evidence Synthesis Report Part 2 as primary sources, and marks published figures separately from values derived by dividing them.