Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year

Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by manquer on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:41AM (#32747245)

Depends on the type of emissions. Shipping uses bunker oil one of the most unclean fuels out there .

Few ports now are providing power supply so they don’t have to burn bunker oil while berthed and can also shutdown power systems to do maintenance, but connectors are not standard etc. IMO has reduced the % of sulfur allowed recently and so on . Still it is a problem.

Sulfur content is especially high and is estimated to cause 150,000 deaths/year and, 13% of SOx emissions is attributed to shipping[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02774-9#ref-link-...

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Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by b3orn on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:57AM (#32747362)

A lot of countries have laws about which types of fuel can be used within territorial waters, usually they restrict it to marine diesel, so nobody is burning bunker oil in port.

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Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by heavenlyblue on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:08AM (#32750056)

Do ships have different fuel tanks to switch between just to enter territorial waters?

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Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by pletnes on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:07AM (#32750841)

Some do, yes. Not sure how general this is. The price difference of the fuel is significant.

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