{"id":6640,"date":"2019-11-21T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"your-order-is-now-ready-for-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/21\/your-order-is-now-ready-for-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Order Is Now Ready For Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“If\nall ships on earth were a single country, that country would be the\nsixth-largest polluter in the world.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As climate change becomes\none of the greatest topics in today’s world, businesses are becoming more\nconscious about their carbon footprint. The transport<\/a>\nrequired for global trade is a specific concern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online shopping has been\nmade easier with the increasing revolution of modern technology. Amani,\ncomfortably sited in her comfort zone in Kigali, Rwanda can get any product in\na few days, weeks or months from China, England or even Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A study\npublished in the Business\nreporter<\/a> points out that 90% of the word’s\ntrade in goods is transported by sea.  It\nis a lifeline of global trade. This means the shipping industry is responsible\nfor around 14 percent if not more of the world’s Sulphur emissions and about 18\npercent of the world’s air emissions- and an estimated 5.25 million\nplastics particles weighing 268, 940 tonnes in the world\u2019s oceans. With the current trends in technology, it is possible to\ncut out these emissions almost entirely. However, oil spillages, habitat\ndestruction from collisions and the overall sound pollution from shipping are\nkilling a great number of Nemo’s and other marine life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This problem has been accelerated by online shopping\nwhich seems to have taken over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what can be done to make a positive\ndifference?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto most industry leaders, the answer to green shipping is not with any cutting\nedge futuristic technological breakthrough but with a technology that can keep\nrunning for decades e.g. hydrogen fuel cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuels. Of\na carbon-neutral sort, are therefore essential. Hydrogen has been given a boost\nin various announcements on fuel cells, although so far shipping has been\nneglected in this debate. Yet, it could be the deal-breaker in green shipping. Some\ncompanies have adopted the technology<\/a> to use\ncryogenically cooled hydrogen as an onboard ship fuel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once cooled to a temperature of\n\u2013253C, hydrogen turns from a gas to a liquid. and is reduced to 1\/800th<\/sup>\nof its volume, making onboard transportation easier. As a result, hydrogen will\nplay a significant role in achieving zero fossil fuel emissions within the\nmarine sector by 2050. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The debate on green hydrogen or\nother potential zero-carbon fuels is not enough. liquefied natural gas<\/a> for\ninstance, while great at reducing air pollution has little benefit in reducing\ngreenhouse gas emissions once methane slippage is taken into account. While\nsome shipping companies are taking into account and making efforts to minimize\nmethane slippage, even very small single-digit percentage leaks can erode the greenhouse\ngas benefits<\/a> of switching from oil to gas, because methane is 84 times more\npotent than CO2 in its warming effects, in the first two decades after its\nrelease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps more dialogue is needed\nbetween energy firms and the shipping sector, to place the world at a better\nplace of carbon-neutral<\/a> global\ntrading systems. All this will be useful in the long term but what else can\nhappen in the short term? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three main candidates to\nsteer short term results are global speed limits- like road vehicles ships\nconsume less fuel a slower speed<\/a>,\noperation efficiency standards for all ships, and shaft power reduction. The\nlatter requires an engine power limitation system, similar to those used in\nautomobiles, to be installed in commercial shipping vessels to limit power to\nan optimum level of fuel consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from its CO2 reduction to\nslow climate change, speed reduction has huge co-benefits for ocean life, in\nterms of noise reduction<\/a> which\naffects aqua life and reduced risk of ship strikes<\/a> which\nhinder the recovery of some marine life that contributes greatly to the\necosystem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content on orders should not be\nbased on whether a client received what they put into their online cart but the\ntype of shipping used to deliver the good. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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