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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