ITF calls for global rules for ship operators to cut emissions

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For clarity’s sake, this ITF is the International Transport Forum, the OECD’s transport think-tank, rather than the International Transport Workers’ Federation… Anyway, following The Loadstar’s story yesterday, it too has been looking at the International Maritime Organization’s position on ships emissions, and concluded, as many others have done, that its targets over the next few decades are simply not ambitious enough. The ITF is calling for a halving of ships’ CO2 emissions over the next 35 years and the introduction of a carbon tax.