12JUL2019 - NEWS - UK CLEAN MARITIME PLAN PUBLISHED

The UK government has published the ‘Clean Maritime Plan’ to outline the UK’s pathway to zero-emission shipping, alongside guidance to assist ports in developing air quality strategies.

As the environment route map of Maritime 2050, which followed the IMO’s greenhouse gas strategy to reduce emissions by at least 50% by 2050 and preceded the UK government’s declaration of a target to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, the plan identifies ways to tackle air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions in parallel while securing clean growth opportunities for the UK.

The forecasts in this document that set out some possibly enormous growth in demands for energy that may need to flow through ports, whether it be shore-side power or bunkering cleaner fuels and we relish the challenge of tackling these in the coming months and years.