Cruise ships visiting Britain are frequently failing to plug into “zero emission” onshore power and instead running their engines and polluting the local environment with…
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Full clean ahead: can shipping finally steer away from fossil fuels?
The passenger ferry MV Sea Change is due this month to make its maiden voyage across San Francisco Bay. But it won’t be the usual…
View More Full clean ahead: can shipping finally steer away from fossil fuels?Shipping emissions could be halved without damaging trade, research finds
Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be halved by 2030 without damaging trade, new research has found, as countries prepare to meet to discuss a…
View More Shipping emissions could be halved without damaging trade, research findsCargo ships powered by wind could help tackle climate crisis
Cars, trucks and planes get plenty of blame for helping drive the climate crisis, but shipping produces a large portion of the world’s greenhouse gases,…
View More Cargo ships powered by wind could help tackle climate crisisUS drafts new speed limits on shipping to help save endangered whales
Vessels off the US east coast must slow down more often to help save a vanishing species of whale from extinction, the federal government said.…
View More US drafts new speed limits on shipping to help save endangered whalesDiesel ship in distress off Tunisia risks creating ‘environmental disaster’
A ship carrying diesel fuel from Egypt that ran into difficulty off Tunisia risks leaking and creating an “environmental disaster”, authorities in Tunisia said on…
View More Diesel ship in distress off Tunisia risks creating ‘environmental disaster’P&O Ferries suspension: your consumer questions answered
What has happened? All the company’s ferry services are currently suspended. P&O normally operates 14 services a day between Dover and Calais, three between Liverpool…
View More P&O Ferries suspension: your consumer questions answeredShip carrying luxury cars sinks near Azores Islands after burning for weeks
An abandoned ship carrying an estimated $401m (£295m) worth of cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini models, has sunk nearly two weeks after a…
View More Ship carrying luxury cars sinks near Azores Islands after burning for weeksNurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
When the X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean in May, Sri Lanka was terrified that the vessel’s 350 tonnes…
View More Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard ofWind … or worse: was pilot error to blame for the Suez blockage?
The trouble started at 5:17am. Ever Given, an Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV) loaded with 20,000 containers, had set off up the Suez canal a…
View More Wind … or worse: was pilot error to blame for the Suez blockage?