Today on a visit to the Port of Esbjerg together with @CBScph and @DTUtweet Maritime. Great presentation by CEO Dennis Jul Pedersen. The port has transformed itself several times and has now become an energy hub. Looking forward to cooperating. @hsfino#greentransition
Shipping giant Maersk, one of the world’s largest oil consumers, ties up with energy companies to jump-start the green methanol market bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets
Exciting to see the launch of this collaborative initiative to connect the locations of Shanghai and Los Angeles in a new trans-Pacific “Green Shipping Corridor”, in partnership between C40 Cities, frontrunner ports and leading shipping companies smartcitiesworld.net/logistics/logi…
Interesting article: shipping needs a net-zero emissions goal, a “drop dead” date for the building of new fossil-fueled vessels and a significant, global price on carbon emissions time-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/time.com/6…
I know the point of this is to poke fun at the rubes but it is common for words (especially place names) to change pronunciation as they move across borders.
An example is English towns ending in -by which is pronounced "boo" in Danish.
The end point is fuels produced sustainably from renewable sources, enabling net carbon neutral performance on the ship; from well to wake splash247.com/?p=135938 via @splash_247
Vessels built today are cost effective under current business and operating conditions, but these conditions are likely to change soon.
splash247.com/?p=114633 via @splash_247
Nuclear powered propulsion would dramatically reduce the need for ships, since ships would go much faster and since there would much less need for carrying energy cargo splash247.com