2024-01-10 15:56:15
In very large container ships, the engines are the size of a building, and run on refinery waste, the viscous residue left at the bottom of the tanks. We call it fuel souteor bunker oil, and giant cargo ships consume between 140 and 300 tonnes per day. It is so loaded with sulfur that it is said that a single large ship can emit as many fine particles as 50 million cars.
With the best will in the world, those who have stopped flying continue without knowing it to fuel the rotations of these super-polluters who transport our consumer and over-consumption products…
Maritime trade further increased by almost 2.5% in 2023 and if it were to continue this same trajectory, its greenhouse gas emissions would represent 17% of global emissions in 2050 according to the UN.
Meeting in London last July, the member countries of the IMO, the International Maritime Organization, announced that they were strengthening their decarbonization efforts with a goal of net zero emissions within fifteen years. How do they plan to achieve this? Who is involved, who is opposed and why? What are the alternatives to current fuels? Above all, are we ready to drastically reduce the volume of trade?
For further : Heavy fuel oil, the impure blood of globalizationpublished by Le Temps
Threatened by drought, the Panama Canal tightens its restrictions on maritime transport
Regularly affected by drought, the Panama Canal experienced its driest month in 73 years last October. To alleviate the water shortage, the canal authorities have undertaken to restrict ship traffic in the isthmus, which is responsible for 5% of world maritime trade. Measures which relate both to boat traffic, already reduced during the summer, and to their draft, that is to say their depth. The Panama Canal, an essential passageway between the Atlantic and the Pacific, is therefore slowing down… Could traffic be completely interrupted? What are the consequences of this crisis on global maritime trade?
Sound references :
Tom Boardley, Vice président Lloyd’s Register, Knut Ørbeck-NilssenDirector General Maritime of DNV, Jacob Sterlingbiologist for Maersk
Ditzum, Germany, a boat captain developed the potential of an old invention, now rediscovered by the industry, the flettner rotor, Until 2022Jacob Sterling, biologist for Maersk, Until 2023,
Musical references:
Will I Am – ‘ S.O.S (Mother Nature)’ (2007)
Boards of Canada – ‘New seed’
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