Neoline blows in as 'a different type of shipowner and operator'
It is becoming possible for some ships to save a portion of their emissions by ...
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The ability of container carriers to levy high demurrage charges on shippers is holding back progress solving one of the biggest shipping bugbears – the “hurry-up-and-wait” scenario, in which box ships increase speed to catch up on schedules, only to end up anchored outside their destination port waiting for a berth.
Some estimates conclude this is increasing container shipping’s CO2 emissions by 15%.
Ships can only unload cargo when there are berthing slots allowing them to dock, and the inverse square law ...
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Daniel Caso
September 21, 2024 at 9:19 amExcellent article! I personally I ve been raising this subject for years including at international bodies like UN-ECLAC without very much attention to this double game issue. What I have noted was that S. American shippers were quite afraid to raise complains on these matters in view of a highly concentrated an vertically integrated shipping industry that at regional level has not real effective government regulation. At least in in the old conference times, there were national flags and a UN code of conduct.