More haste, less speed on emissions
The IMO faces pressure to improve shipping’s environmental performance, while shipyards are still building tomorrow’s vessels with today’s technologies, writes NIKO WIJNOLST*
IN THE run up to the first and second oil crises, global shipbuilding output reached unprecedented levels in 1976: 35m compensated gross tonnage.
Thereafter it dropped to 15mgt in 1979 and only recovered slowly to the normal level of...
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