In 2000, a brand-new ship called Onoe left the shipyard of Japanese steelmaker NKK. It was a bulk carrier—low, flat, almost 300 meters long—designed to ferry unpackaged cargo like cement and grain around the world. For a time, that was exactly what it did: there are...

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As negotiators gather at the intercessional working group of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee next week in London, they should remember that a bridge is only as strong as its pillars. A global fuel standard to reduce carbon intensity, a fixed levy on...

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