Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 20 August 2008 | Nature 454, 924-925 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454924a
News
Whatever floats your boat
Shipping is one of the most fuel-efficient ways to move freight, but the industry still produces significant greenhouse-gas emissions, including more than a quarter of the world's nitrogen oxides emissions. And it also produces more sulphur dioxide emissions than all land transportation combined. In the latest of our Future Transport series, Duncan Graham-Rowe looks at the new wave in shipping.
*This article is best viewed as a PDF.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email redesign@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
Excellent ideas! It's a pity they do it because of saving money, not because of protecting the environment. Luckily these two things are linked in this case...