Shipping

Methane is awful for the atmosphere. It's a major byproduct of many industrial processes, and we now know it also comes from a surprising and seemingly innocuous source – ships passing through shallow waters.

The air at sea might be getting a bit cleaner as technology group Wärtsilä puts its Carbon Capture Solution (CCS) system on the market. The modular apparatus is claimed to capture as much as 70% of the CO2 emissions from cargo ship exhaust systems.

Singapore's Tuas mega port has now successfully handled 10 million containers since it kicked off operations in September 2022, and is expected to handle 65 million shipping containers a year in the 2040s when its development is complete.

Most of us are familiar with the vest-clad beagle that hunts for illegal fruits and plants in the travelers' luggage at airports. Now, a species of giant pouched rat has been trained to fulfill a similar role in finding illegal wildlife products.

A new propeller created by the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) coated with a skin mimicking that of a dolphin holds the promise of significantly reducing fuel consumption and emissions in large cargo ships.

An age of greener, more efficient shipping may be in the offing as a specially modified 43,000-tonne bulk freighter completes a six-month sea trial using a combination of diesel engines and a set of high-tech automatic sails to catch the wind.

Shipping ports are major sources of pollution, due in part to anchored or docked ships using diesel generators to keep their systems powered up. A year from now, however, the Port of Honolulu will be trying out a mobile hydrogen fuel cell unit, as a more eco-friendly and fuel-saving alternative.

The Science Museum, with the help of the University College London and ScanLAB, has created a virtual version of the now closed Shipping Gallery to make the exhibit available to future generations

A new generation of sail-equipped hybrid cargo ships could use up to 30% less fuel.

Cargill Ocean Transportation has announced that it will be installing a SkySails wind propulsion system on one of its cargo ships, the largest ever to receive such technology.

EcoCradle is a packaging with all the same properties as Styrofoam, but is grown from useless agricultural by-products and is fully compostable.