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Shipping emissions

June 2024

  • workers unload a freight ship

    ‘All these problems are solvable’: Great Lakes shipping fights to cut emissions

    A new, cleaner ship points way as US ports in the region are spending millions on upgrades in pursuit of net zero

May 2024

  • Cruise ship with smoke pouring from its funnel

    ‘Termination shock’: cut in ship pollution sparked global heating spurt

  • Cruise ships line up at the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire. P&amp;O MS Ventura, Saga Spirit of Adventure, and Seven Seas Splendor.<br>2K02AM2 Cruise ships line up at the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire. P&amp;O MS Ventura, Saga Spirit of Adventure, and Seven Seas Splendor.

    Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars

March 2024

  • It's complicated
    How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet

February 2024

  • a huge cruise ship passes skyscrapers in New York City

    America's dirty divide
    ‘An ominous presence’: New York City bill aims to restrict cruise ship pollution

  • A cargo ship, an airplane, and a smokestack

    The world is reducing its reliance on fossil fuels – except for in three key sectors

January 2024

  • A huge ship, with hundreds of crew members seen as tiny figures on the many decks, approaching a US city

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sail

    Claims that Icon of the Seas, the vast new ship described as ‘human lasagne’, runs on clean fuel have been labelled greenwashing as LNG’s methane emissions are a more potent climate gas than CO2

November 2023

  • The superyacht Obsidian moored In Portland Harbour. The yacht has a top speed of 17kn and a maximum range of 5500nm and can accommodate up to 14 guests in seven staterooms, with 27 crew members.

    Science Weekly
    Superyachts and private jets: the carbon impact of the ‘polluter elite’ – podcast

  • A row of cruise ships docked in Southampton.

    Cruise ships polluting UK coast as they ignore greener power options

October 2023

  • Enzo Tortello, a 75-year-old electronic engineer from Genoa, Italy, looks out at the city’s port. From his apartment, he constantly sees and hears the cruise ships.

    ‘A good cruise is one that doesn’t come’: Europe’s ports bear brunt of ship pollution

    As health and environmental impact of cruise ships becomes clearer, Mediterranean ports consider bans and restrictions

September 2023

  • Orkney electric ferry

    Orkney islands to trial electric ferries to cut carbon emissions

    Battery-powered hydrofoils to start in March 2024, aimed at replacing ageing and highly polluting inter-island ferries

August 2023

  • A small catamaran ship.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Full clean ahead: can shipping finally steer away from fossil fuels?

    Electric ships, hydrogen, ‘air lubrication’ and even good old wind power are reducing emissions, but campaigners say true change will ‘take guts’

July 2023

  • Cargo containers stacked on ships at the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, California

    Shipping emissions levy delayed but goals for greenhouse gas cuts agreed

    International Maritime Organization agreement is inadequate to decarbonise sector, say campaigners

June 2023

  • Huge container ship sails through canal in desert

    Shipping emissions could be halved without damaging trade, research finds

  • A truck arrives to pick up a shipping container near vessels at the Port of Los Angeles

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Climate impact of shipping under growing scrutiny ahead of key meeting

March 2023

  • An illustration shows a wind-powered car and truck carrier ship that a Swedish consortium is developing and aiming to launch late 2024.

    Weatherwatch
    Cargo ships powered by wind could help tackle climate crisis

  • cargo ships on sea. Marine emissions, smoke, air pollution

    Pressure grows on shipping industry to accept carbon levy

August 2022

  • The sailing boat "Grain de Sail" sails on the Loire river, en route toward Nantes, western France, to unload a cargo of cocoa from Dominican Republic, on February 17, 2021, after transporting its own production of chocolate to New York on a three-month trip. (Photo by Fred TANNEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘It’s a little bit of utopia’: the dream of replacing container ships with sailing boats – podcast

    Global trade depends almost entirely on huge, dirty, dangerous container ships. Now a team of French shipbuilders is bringing back wind-powered sea freight. By Wendell Steavenson

July 2022

  • Black smoke coming from a cruise ship’s funnel.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea

    Told to reduce air pollution, the shipping industry could have switched to cleaner fuels – instead, many vessels turned to special devices that simply dump the toxins into the water

April 2022

  • cruise ship on the horizon

    Sinking feeling: cruise ships chart return to Australia amid emissions concerns

    With pandemic disruption receding, will the industry’s return and expansion lead to sustainable cruising – or more pollution?
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