The marine shipping industry is facing new regulations to address carbon pollution and documents show the industry is fighting back
FILE - Tugboats guide the Axel Maersk container ship as it arrives into port, Oct. 21, 2021, in Miami. The marine shipping industry is facing new regulations to address carbon pollution. Its trade groups have been seeking exemptions for pollution emitted during voyages on rough seas.
In April, four trade groups, including the World Shipping Council, complained that the new rules would penalize ships that have to sail in rough conditions. This burns more fuel and produces more carbon dioxide, meaning ships in windy seas would get a worse carbon efficiency rating.So the trade groups proposed to the International Maritime Organization in written submissions that periods of eight hours or more undertaken in bad weather be struck from the scoring entirely.
The World Shipping Council argued that factors like extreme weather “distort the picture and make the numbers less effective at driving the change we want.” The proposed regulations should be left as they are to achieve 2030 emissions targets, he said. While trade groups can give good advice on cutting emissions, their primary focus is on making members money, he said.
Both have made stringent promises to cut greenhouse gases. MSC has pledged to hit net zero by 2050, while Maersk says it will do so ten years earlier.
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