Tag: emissions

July 8, 2024

The CO2 Efficient Transport via Ocean (CETO) joint industry project (JiP) concluded recently with the release of the report setting out the findings of the Technology Qualification performed in the study. CETO was funded by the project partners and Gassonova […]

June 25, 2024

With goals to limit CO2 emissions, many countries have set targets to phase out internal combustion vehicles in favor of electric vehicles (EVs). Japan has set a target for 20%–30% of all car sales to be battery electric vehicles (BEVs) […]

May 16, 2024

ESG (environmental, social and governance) considerations have gone from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’ in the maritime sector, spurred on by increasing regulation and the potential for ESG to be a commercial differentiator. While regulations specific to […]

November 29, 2023

Initially, the FHWA proposed stronger standards last year for its framework. The final rule’s modifications came a year later after nearly 40,000 public comments. The agency originally called for requiring state emission reductions targets every two years. State transportation departments […]

November 16, 2023

A new report by the University of Southampton has been launched to assess the relationship between measures aimed at enhancing ship energy efficiency and underwater radiated noise emissions. The report was commissioned by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) to […]

March 2, 2023

Most people have yet to see one on the streets of Europe, but the EU wants to make them ubiquitous within a few years. Trucks using batteries or hydrogen fuel cells instead of diesel engines will need to make up […]

February 24, 2023

Since 2013, commercial vessels have been assessed and allotted savings on their harbour dues based on the magnitude of their air emission and underwater noise performance. In 2022, PRPA introduced a new incentive for cargo vessels that plug into shore […]

February 1, 2023

Selected Maersk e-delivery customers in Europe will be able to register for a new tool in February to trace and analyse the emissions of their international parcels. The Danish liner giant, which entered the European e-commerce logistics market in 2021 […]

December 1, 2022

EU institutions have hammered out a preliminary agreement to include shipping within the scope of the emissions trading system (ETS). Under the deal struck late Tuesday evening, all ships of 5,000 gt and over within the EU will be required […]

October 4, 2022

The regulation, which expires in April 2024, is now under review by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP). Whilst EU Block Exemption Regulations for consortia have been continuously in place since 1995, the Commission first adopted the CBER […]

September 21, 2022

The bill was introduced into the U.S. Congress in July 2022 by Congressman Alan Lowenthal who represents the Port of Long Beach, one of the nation’s busiest cargo ports, and cosponsored by Congresswoman Nanette Barragán who represents the neighboring Port […]

September 20, 2022

The Biden Administration announced Friday it had organized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between four federal agencies that will accelerate the nation’s affordable and equitable clean transportation future. According to the White House, the U.S. Departments of Energy, Transportation, Housing […]

August 15, 2022

On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Danny Gomez, managing director of financial and emerging markets at FreightWaves, and Nate Springer, senior director of market development at Gladstein Neandross & Associates, clarified the differences among scopes 1, 2 and 3 emissions […]

July 1, 2022

With diesel prices at all-time highs, the American Power Group Inc. is hoping its dual-fuel approach to heavy-duty trucking results in greater interest among owner-operators and small fleets. The $25,000 retrofit substitutes one of two diesel tanks on a Class […]

May 31, 2022

On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Danny Gomez, managing director of financial and emerging markets at FreightWaves, is joined by Mike Hopkins, CEO of Bakken Energy, to discuss the basics of hydrogen and why hydrogen is an attractive fuel source […]

March 24, 2022

The comprehensive study, delivered in partnership with Connected Places Catapult, also found that 78% of port emissions in Aberdeen North Harbour are attributed to vessels at berth. Moreover, the study revealed that a proposed demonstrator project could provide green shore […]

December 20, 2021

In a major step to fight climate change, the Biden administration is raising vehicle mileage standards to significantly reduce emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. A final rule being issued Dec. 20 would raise mileage standards starting in the 2023 model […]

December 16, 2021

Maersk announced today the signing of an international freight supply chain management partnership with consumer goods giant Unilever effective from 2022. The four-year agreement will see the development and management of Unilever’s International Control Tower Solution – an operational management […]

December 3, 2021

In terms of global intervention, there are the IMO’s mandatory short term goal-based technical and operation measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – namely, the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) regimes […]

November 15, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two appeals from Volkswagen AG, leaving intact rulings that let state and local governments sue over a diesel-emissions cheating scandal that already has cost the German automaker more than $23 billion. The justices without comment […]