News / IMO 'kills remaining hopes for requiring the building of more efficient containerships'

29/10/2018

Efforts to decarbonise the shipping sector have taken a step back after the IMO overturned plans for new design standards.

A bid to impose a 40% efficiency improvement requirement on all containerships built from 2022 onwards – based on 2008 standards – was put in abeyance until the IMO meets ...

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