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Posted - February 25, 2010, 12:46 PM EST - Bloomberg.com - By Mathew Carr and Alaric Nightingale
Emissions from shipping would fall about 20 percent as early as 2012 under proposed rules for 169 nations, the secretary general of the United Nation’s International Maritime Organization said.
New rules for vessels from rich and emerging nations would probably require owners to adopt so-called slow steaming to cut fuel consumption, said Efthimios Mitropoulos, head of the UN shipping agency known as IMO. For new ships, technical measures including new hull designs for improved propulsion would reduce emissions an additional 15 percent, he said....
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-25/imo-seeks-emission-cuts-for-emerging-nation-ships-update1-.html
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