CARBON EMISSION: SHIPPING SECTOR UNDER PRESSURE TO CLEAN UP ACT - General NBF Topics

Posted - January 7th 2011 - General NBF Topics

Although the commercial shipping sector accounts for only 3.3 per cent of global carbon emissions from the industrial sector, the industry should not be complacent in its effort to be ”greener,” according to a senior fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia, Nazery Khalid, The Star Online reported on Monday.
He said, ”Concerns over carbon emissions have emerged as a key drive,r which is reshaping the way industry players think, plan, invest and operate.
”There is growing pressure for the sector to clean up its act amid growing demand for maritime-related services such as shipping, port operations, shipbuilding, ship repairing and a host of other ancillary services.
Khalid told StarBiz, ”Players in the maritime sector simply cannot maintain the status quo and hope for the problem of global warming to go away.Players in the maritime sector simply cannot maintain the status quo and hope for the problem of global warming to go away.
”As demand for services in the maritime sector grows in line with growing global seaborne trade, offshore oil and gas activities and other economic activities that require ships, ports and other maritime components, emissions from the sector is expected to rise.”

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