Maersk Stops Purchase of Boxships That Don’t Meet ‘Emission Targets’

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One of the world’s largest shipping companies by fleet size, AP Moller Maersk, has halted purchase of container ships that are unable to totally eliminate carbon emissions, reports Platts.

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Rene Piil Pedersen, managing director of the company’s Singapore arm, told S&P Global Platts on the sidelines of the Marine Money conference held in Singapore on April 20, “Going forward, we will only order ships which have zero carbon emission capability.”

This means that even though these new...

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