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Aussies join fight to clean up world's 'dirty' ships

A local start-up and Germany's ThyssenKrupp are looking forward to a new dawn in clean shipping. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

Ex-oil and gas engineers are using Australia's traditional industrial strengths to refloat one of the world's dirtiest industries - shipping.

Europe and China may have a head start, but a group of chemical engineers have backing for a $2 billion plant to produce a green shipping fuel from Australia's abundant sunshine, wind power and forestry waste.

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