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Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide ship emissions and asking whether the IMO is going too far too fast
When dreaded carbon dioxide was first mooted at a shipping conference in Shenzhen eight years ago, it seemed like the next Big Thing bureaucrats insist we all worry about. Not then, but soon we were to tremble and obey their instructions and whatever they wanted done. At the time, there was the sound of note of resistance.
And for a while shipping lobbies would question it, asking why they should be worried if the earth's temperature increased a degree or two in the next 100 years.
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Measures taken during Covid might well be carried into the future, but would that be wise or foolish?
In recent times, there has been much talk about the "new normal". But in the coming year we shall be re-acquainted with "old normal" punctuated by a peak seasons and slack seasons, and last minute air freight booms before Christmas.
And then there are changing circumstances occasioned by the peaks and troughs of trends which inevitably makes victors and victims in that endless game of musical chairs, or what one sea lawyer called "who's holding the bag".
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Can Novorossiysk become a new road to Russia, helped rather than hindered by war in Ukraine?
Expert thinking is more optimistic about the Russian container trade on the Black Sea and beyond than it has been. Despite widespread condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the initial and very public Maersk divestment of its Novorossyisk's APM Terminals container port on the Black Sea east of the Crimea, there is reason to hope for better times.
As the Russians have allowed ships with grain unimpeded passage from Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk, Pivdennyi and Yuzhny under the UN sponsored Black Sea Grain Initiative, it is likely there will be no interference with Russian shipping from Novorossyisk, 950 miles south of Moscow with a consumer rich hinterland in between including Volgagrad (aka Stalingrad) as well at affluent areas of Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.
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Case study: Assessing a replacement port proposal based on environmental concerns over air quality
It is unclear in this pre-conception stage whether the projected Port of Nootka - to be located in pristine moose pasture in the remote Canadian wilderness - would handle everything that Vancouver does, the port it is supposed to replace.
That is, containers as well as dry and liquid bulk cargo. To which we must undoubtedly add liquefied natural gas (LNG) as it is on its way to be one of the only marine fuels one is allowed to burn if environmentalists have their way, which at this point, seems likely.
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