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Nine large shippers have joined the Aspen Institute’s initiative to drive maritime decarbonisation with ambitious targets, but none of the members of cargo owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV) is a carrier or fuel producer.

The companies that have joined include Michelin, Amazon, Ikea, Unilever, clothing company Patagonia and Inditex, which includes a number of brands such as Zara, and they have pledged to collaborate to transition all their ocean freight to zero-carbon vessels by 2040.

Chicago charity the Aspen Institute launched ...