Shipping Companies Building Bigger To Curb GHG Emissions

June 2, 2008

Email this story Print this post Add your comments

STX Shipbuilding says it has developed the world’s largest container ship, which is capable of carrying 22,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) — four times the size of the largest container ship, the Emma Maersk, which is capable of carrying 13,500 TEU, the Wall Street Journal reports. The new diesel-powered ship would save up to 40 percent in fuel cost per transported TEU, but would be too big for most ports and could likely only travel between Shangai and Long Beach, California.Measuring 1,500 feet long, 200 feet wide and 100 feet deep, STX’s giant vessel could leave Samsung Heavy Industries in its wake. SHI announced late last year that it had developed a 16,000 TEU ship.

The Panama Canal seems to be expecting ships to be built bigger. Once complete in 2014, its new navigation channels will be 51 feet deeper and at least 715 feet wider. The locks themselves will be 400 feet longer and 70 feet wider than the existing locks, WorldTrade Magazine reports.

Email this story Print this post Add your comments

Advertisers

Enhance Sustainability. Improve Profitability.

Learn how at the SAP Sustainability Resource Center. >>

Unclear about the EPA's new GHG Rule?

Learn how it could affect your business. >>

EPA mandatory emissions reporting starts Jan 1st

CSA Standards can help your organization get ready for compliance. Find out how. >>

Best Practices: Product Environmental Compliance

How to achieve compliance at a significantly lower cost. Download the full report. >>

Join the Discussion

Reader Comments

Umm…yeah great. How many narural habitats have to be destroyed to make room for these larger ships? In Fort Lauderdale they will be destroying 9 acres of protected mangroves to make room for the new behemoths. Ports must be dredged so that we can ship more goods from farther away. That is hardly progress. Great for China, not for American marine life.

Wetlandman | June 6th, 2008

Recent Daily News [ see all ]

11/20/2009
11/19/2009
11/18/2009

Charts [ see all ]

European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990

S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks

Nike Tops Annual Climate Action Scores

Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests

Jobs

View All Jobs >> Post a Job >>

Comments and Discussions

Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."

Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."

peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."

Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."

Jake on UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
"A point of clarification: the Reuters press release referenced herein reports that 20 UPS will purchase..."

Custom Organic Shirts on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"90% of North Americans believe it is urgent to get a global climate..."

peter dublin on California City’s Green Building Ordinance Applies to Commercial Buildings
"Why energy efficiebnt regulation on buildings –..."

Environmental Leader