You know it's big. The numbers say it's big. But it's only as you sail past and look up at it. A 399m long Neo Panamax container ship capable of carrying >24000 containers. Holy crap thats a big ship!!!
@rooftopjaxx well in its current location, the containers being taken off the ship are going into the UK market. As for the containers going onto the ship, at a guess, heading for the Chinese market. IIRC the MSC China basically goes back and forth from China to Europe.
@rooftopjaxx in the grand scheme of things. It's a tiny amount. Container shipping on this scale is incredibly efficient. Shipping is 1.8% of global emissions. And half of that is moving fossil fuels about, so that's gonna half pretty soon anyway.
@quixoticgeek Hmmm, absolutely no expert here, but these two very quick searches suggest it's both higher and still growing (perhaps relative to other reducing sources), eg "global shipping is still reliant on heavily polluting fuels, with the sector contributing approximately two percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020. If it were a country, global shipping would be the world's sixth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide.2 Oct 2023"
Do take your point on moving fossil fuels about though.
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