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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Flesher

Mechanical sails? Batteries? Shippers forming 'green corridors' to fast-track cleaner technologies

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It's among the world's busiest container shipping routes — a stream of vessels packed with furniture, automobiles, clothing and other goods, traversing the Pacific between Los Angeles and Shanghai.

If plans succeed, this corridor will become a showcase for slashing planet-warming carbon emissions from the shipping industry, which produces nearly 3% of the world's total. That's less than from cars, trucks, rail or aviation but still a lot — and it's rising.

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