By the way -
World’s
15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All The Cars In The World
Jeremy
Helms
Says
James Corbett, professor of marine policy at the University of
Delaware: “Ship pollution affects the health of communities in
coastal and inland regions around the world, yet pollution from ships
remains one of the least regulated parts of our global transportation
system.” It sounds serious, but how bad could it be? Staggeringly,
if a report by the UK’s Guardian newspaper is to be believed.
According to their story, just one of the world’s largest container
ships can emit about as much pollution as 50 million cars. Further,
the 15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and
sulphur oxide as the world’s 760 million cars.
The
problem isn’t necessarily with the ships’ 109,000-horsepower
engines that endlessly spin away 24 hours a day, 280 days a year. In
fact, these powerplants are some of the most fuel efficient units in
the world. The real issue lies with the heavy fuel oil the ships run
on and the almost complete lack of regulations applied to the giant
exhaust stacks of these container ships.
The
good news is that pressure is building from various governments
around the world, including the United States, which just recently
introduced legislation to keep these ships at least 230 miles away
from U.S. coastlines. Similar measures are likely to follow in other
countries like the United Kingdom.
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