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The shipping industry, which transports about 90% of the world’s cargo, is developing “green” technologies that support the long-term suship_pollution_thumb.jpgstainability of the sector. The effort to create a more environmental-friendly industry is spearheaded by a Danish organisation, Green Ship of the Future (GSF). GSF was founded by the four leading Danish maritime companies – Aalborg Industries, A.P. Moller-Maersk, MAN Diesel and Odense Steel Shipyard – to develop strategies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30%, sulphur oxide by 90%, nitrogen oxide by 90% and particulate emissions from both existing ships and newbuildings.
GSF presented its ideas to the industry from this region at the recent Asia Pacific Maritime 2010. Maersk, the largest container shipping firm in the world, has undertaken studies to lower CO2 emissions by reducing speed.
This initiative also reduces operational cost which bodes well with the shipping market that has been adversely affected by the global economic downturn.
According to Maersk, tests on one of its ships, an 8,000-TEU (twenty-foot equivalent) containership, showed that lowering the ship speed would result in lower CO2 emissions.
“The lower ship speed will cut emissions by 25% per sailed nautical mile,” it said.
The company aimed to reduce CO2 emissions to below 65g per km by 2017, said Hennie van Schoor, Maersk director of business performance (Asia Pacific).
Other initiatives include technology for reduction of air emissions within four focus areas: machinery, propulsion, operation and logistics....
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