Available extra box ship tonnage even harder to find this year
The number of cellular container vessels sold for recycling roughly halved last year, compared with ...
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Carriers will have to rely on cargo-owners’ willingness to pay a healthy surcharge for greener shipping, in order to recover the cost of ‘significantly more expensive’ green methanol fuel.
Yesterday, Alphaliner reported that carriers could sell ’green slots’ on conventionally fuelled vessels, on condition they do not sell more ‘green teu miles’ than those actually created on carbon neutral ships.
In other words, if a carrier had just one ship of ten powered by green fuel, assuming all the ships were ...
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Dwight Campbell
April 11, 2024 at 11:00 pmThis stuff just gets marked up and passed down until the retail customer at the discount department store (or the premium car dealer) gets to the checkout and looks at the final bill. The retail customer always determines whether they are willing to, or can afford to, pay for it.