Maersk backs US bill to accelerate C02 crackdown on ships
DANISH shipping giant Maersk has applauded proposed US legislation to more greatly restrict gas emissions from ships plying US waters, reports New York's Journal of Commerce.
Maersk's North American chief of environmental initiatives has come out in favour of the effort to limit the growth of gas emissions from shipping over the next two decades.
California Congressman Robert Garcia and California Senator Alex Padilla, both Democrats, are reintroducing the Clean Shipping Act for the 2023 legislative session, that would illegalize emissions from commercial shipping.
Lee Kindberg, head of environment and sustainability for Maersk North America, said her company will decarbonize operations by 2040. She said the bill would help prod others in the maritime supply chain to do the same.
"We encourage the US Congress to act on this legislation and to establish processes to ensure the supply of the green fuels and energy essential to low-emissions shipping and logistics," she said. "The need is pressing. This must be the decade of action."
source:SchedNet
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