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It’s gone into reverse gear

Shipping's total greenhouse gas emissions rose about 10 percent between 2012 and 2018. This according to the IMO's fourth report on greenhouse gase...

Photo project will change the image of female sailors

The Swedish Mercantile Marine Foundation has granted SEK 250,000 for a photographic project that ...

Conflict between climate policy objectives and transfer goals

According to a new report from Trafikanalys the instruments required to achieve the climate goals...

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Lars Larsson, professor at Chalmers and chairman of the international sailing conference INNOV’SA...

Seafarers should be recognized as key workers

Today, seafarers' day is celebrated worldwide. The theme is obvious - the campaign "Seafarers are...

Small ports are expected to receive most of the traffic

Trends point to an increased use of large ports. But a modal shift of freight transport from road...

It is the existing ships that is the key to cut emissions

The shipping sector ‘can’t wait’ for new, low-carbon ships to enter its fleet if it is to cut CO2...

Shipping within the EU emits as much CO2 as all of Belgium

Shipping emits 138 million tons of carbon dioxide a year in Europe. This amounts to more than 3.7...

Millions for research on emission allowances

As recently as May, Lighthouse presented a pre-study on how shipping would be affected by an incl...

Ships from "white states" place the most strain on the marine environment

It is not ships from blacklisted flag states but those from whitelisted that put the most pressur...

Major setback for shipping's climate work

According to a survey of how Covid-19 has affected shipping almost half of the European Community...

How to make ports sustainable transport nodes

The trend of digitization, automation and electrification is creating great pressure on small and...

Short strong sounds the biggest threat to marine life

Noise in harbours is similar to that which can be measured near a shipping lane, but there are in...

No extra cost to switch to electric ferries

The financial costs does not seem to be the problem when electric ferries are to be brought into ...

Large variations in costs - new pre-study on shipping and emission allowances

An additional cost of between EUR 0.2 billion and EUR 12.5 billion per year. How shipping will be...

Sustainable shipping receives an additional 4.5 million

Lighthouse has received an additional SEK 1.5 million a year for three years to run the Swedish T...

Shipping disappeared again

The great exposure that shipping got in the Swedish daily press during the month of March due to ...

More carrots and sticks are needed

The Swedish climate targets will not be achieved with today's incentives, not even if shipping is...

The corona crisis has made shipping visible

Layoffs, closed lines, demands on economic help to keep traffic alive. The negative consequences ...

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