The history of sailboats stretches back to around 4000 BCE, when Egyptians used masts and sails to travel the Nile. Over the centuries, many different types of sailing vessels crossed the world’s seas, from galley ships and Viking longboats with their single square sails, to Chinese junk ships whose bamboo-reinforced sails improved aerodynamics. Later came […]
As much as 90% of traded goods worldwide are shipped by sea and 99% of cargo ships are powered by oil-based fuels. To change this pattern, the Danish shipping and logistics company Maersk has launched the first container ship fueled by green methanol, the Laura Maersk. Produced from low-carbon sources such as biomass, renewable organic […]
According to the Global Agenda Council on Oceans, a World Economic Forum select group of experts looking for solutions to today’s challenges in the field of oceans, shipping significantly impacts our oceans as 90% of the global trade volume is carried on ships. But perhaps in part due to the high profile pollution disasters of recent decades, shipping industry […]
