This company believes it can bring emissions-free shipping to reality.
The global shipping industry is another part of the emissions picture in transportation, and it’s a rather large one. Roughly 11 billion tons of goods are transported by ship every year, which amounts to approximately 1.4 tons per person on the planet. The shipping industry forms the base of much of the modern global economy, but we hear relatively little about efforts to decarbonize it.
A lot of people are not really thinking about the shipping industry or the maritime sector in an accurate way. Ceiba will be the largest emission-free cargo ship in the world. She'll be able to take a maximum of 10 TEU . That's including one on deck. That's tiny. These other vessels are around 22,000 TEU.
Most ships aren't allowed to burn that low quality of fuel within the territorial waters of most countries. The life-cycle of these ships is another aspect of the industry that seems to be out of sync with the environment and social justice. What exactly does that look like? After the 25-year lifespan of the ship, the company sells the vessel to a third party, reflags the boat, and renames it so you can’t identify it anymore. And now, [these companies] don’t have anything to do with it. Now, they’re no longer accountable. migrant workers and childrenSo, if we go back to the pop can analogy, [this is equivalent to] a rich person buying a pop can, walking to a poor area, and throwing it in someone’s face and saying, ‘Clean up my mess.
Costa Rica is amazing. It’s a small country located right in the middle of North and South America, right in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific, so it’s really at the center of everything in some ways.
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