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Shipping, Carbon War Room:

With a mission to focusing on accelerating the adoption of business solutions that r reduce carbon emissions at gigaton-scale and advance the low-carbon economy, she t talked about the three developments as future trends describing the focus on ef? cien- cy. Charterers had announced the week before that 20% of global shipped tonnage, r represented by 25 companies, are preferring more ef? cient vessels, thus excluding inef? cient vessels from their supply chain. A month ago two leading shipping banks (HSH Nordbank and KfW IPEX) said they use ef? ciency information in their invest- m ment decision making, using a tool worked on jointly with DNV GL. Carbon War

Room works also with two Canadian ports which are offering discounts for more ef- ? cient vessels. Another current development is on retro? tting technologies for ships.

A An example is wind propulsion technology, where Norsepower’s now have veri? ed

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