Cargo Ship Emissions

My understanding is that shipping is fuel efficient but not emissions efficient because that hasn't been required by the flag countries popularly used to register vehicles so you're basically seeing things like a half century-old design from an emissions control perspective. Since that industry is so cost sensitive something like this makes sense for closing that loophole.

Those ships are massive polluters by the way

Aside from the environmental benefit right? Don’t lots of large ships burn cheaper fuel higher in pollutants when on unregulated wafers?

hasn't this been going on over the atlantic as well? container ships aren't putting as much sulphur in the atmosphere as they used to.put the sulphur back in the ship juice!

Have a look at cargo ship emissions and then think.

You are missing the fuel -- it takes a lot of fuel to drag that parasite across the ocean and it would almost certainly be noticed by the crew of the ship as shipping is a low margin, high volume business and costs are closely watched.

Not ships are banned, but usage of heavy fuel. That means the last few hundred miles ship goes using diesel. But in international waters any kind of fuel could be used.

Good. Cargo ships are absolutely terrible for the environment: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/18/dirty-diesel...

It's the cargo ships. They usually use dirty fuel and there are so many of them. Cruise ships are a problem, but there aren't nearly as many.

Container ships are already going slower:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/25/slow-shi...