Confidential data from maritime industry insiders based on engine size and the quality of fuel typically used by ships and cars shows that just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars.
That's right. 15 ships. 760,000,000 cars. And there are approximately 90,000 container ships in service. Not all are super tankers but close enough.
90,000/15=6000 x 760,000,000= 4,560,000,000,000. 4.5 trillion cars. Do you think we should care about pollution standards anymore? Here are some numbers...
The world's biggest container ships have 109,000 horsepower engines which weigh 2,300 tons.
Each ship expects to operate 24hrs a day for about 280 days a year
There are 90,000 ocean-going cargo ships
Shipping is responsible for 18-30% of all the world's nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution and 9% of the global sulphur oxide (SOx) pollution.
One large ship can generate about 5,000 tonnes of sulphur oxide (SOx) pollution in a year
70% of all ship emissions are within 400km of land.
85% of all ship pollution is in the northern hemisphere.
Shipping is responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions
Start calling your congress person. And for the whole ARTICLE...
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5 comments:
There seems to be no avoidance of pollution, other than going back to sailing vessels.
Pirate ships were eco-friendly at least.
Angel - Argh argh, right yee are matey.
Part of the problem is that so many of those container ships sail under flags of convenience from countries that have very lax regulation of pollutants. The major nations, more avare of pollution, have their hands tied.
To do list: 1) Find new thing to worry about.
CHECK!
Grand - They're probably all registered out of Libia like the cruise liners.
LET - There's always one bigger thing out there.
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