Big polluters: One massive container ship equals 50 million cars
The Guardian has reported on new research showing that in one year, a single large container ship can emit cancer and asthma-causing pollutants equivalent to that of 50 million cars. The low grade bunker fuel used by the worlds 90,000 cargo ships contains ...
Dunking on the left aside, wind power is returning to cargo shipping, and wide adoption would reduce energy usage in ocean shipping by something like 30% (or much higher if shipping much slower is acceptable, which generally it wouldn't be).