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Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by easygenes on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:56AM (#32748966)
Shipping also uses RFO [1][2] (Residual Fuel Oil, often just referred to as bunker fuel). It is the absolute filthiest petrosludge that's essentially unfit for any other purpose, and the exhaust waste is dumped into the ocean directly. That 2.5% is likely a gross underestimate of the true impact [3][4]. The "scrubber" systems which are supposed to reduce the sulfur dumped into the air, just wind up dumping it into the sea [5].

  1: https://williamliggett.com/2018/05/28/bunker-fuel-sounds-bad-its-worse-than-it-sounds/
  2: https://wolfstreet.com/2018/06/03/bunker-the-fuel-for-the-giant-engines-in-large-cargo-ships/
  3: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/11399/2020/
  4: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026974912101280X
  5: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00139/full
Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by deelowe on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:57AM (#32750714)
RFO is being phased out due to regulations.
Re:Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year by mistrial9 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @09:17AM (#32750152)
confirm basically zero pollution control on the open seas.