Green Ships Ahoy Along Vital Corridors
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on 7 News Australia.
These are the first two paragraphs.
Australia’s biggest miners are preparing for a day of reckoning.
Shipping accounts for two to three per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions so manufacturers and retailers are no longer just considering what appears in national targets.
The article then goes on to explain how the big mining companies are cutting their emissions.
This paragraph illustrates how important mining and shipping is to Australia.
Resources and energy earnings passed $300 billion for the first time in 2020-21 and will surge towards $400 billion in 2021-22, according to December figures.
Hence the big need for ships fuelled by lower carbon fuels.
The Anonymous Widower 
There’s quite an interesting article at https://press.hurtigruten.com/pressreleases/hurtigruten-norway-unveils-its-first-zero-emission-cruise-ship-worlds-most-energy-efficient-cruise-vessel-3257567 on how the Norwegian cruise ship company Hurtigruten are aiming to make their ships zero-emission. I’d never heard of them, but then I have zero interest in cruises. Norway has already converted quite a few of its cross-fjord ferries to electric, but these ships seems to be on an altogether bigger scale – though nowhere near the size of the monsters that now sail out of Southampton and the like.
Comment by Peter Robins | June 9, 2023 |
Thanks! I’ll investigate!
Comment by AnonW | June 9, 2023 |