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Read about the waves we’re making in the media about zero-emissions maritime shipping.

News|Supply Chain Brain

Supply Chain Professionals Can Lead on Green Freight

May 13, 2022 — Pollution from freight operations can increasingly be connected back to the company that’s moving goods. The ocean shipping emissions footprint of IKEA, Target and Walmart, were calculated by Ship It Zero, a coalition of climate, clean air and consumer advocates.

News|Ship Technology

Pacific Basin, Nihon Shipyard and Mitsui team up on zero-emission vessels

May 12, 2022 — Hong Kong-based Pacific Basin Shipping, an owner and operator of dry bulk vessels, has collaborated with Japan’s Nihon Shipyard and Mitsui & Co for the investigation and development of commercially-feasible zero-emission vessels (ZEV).

News|S&P Global

Listen: Can the Los Angeles-Shanghai green shipping corridor save the sector and the planet?

May 2, 2022 — The shipping sector faces a massive challenge in decarbonizing to meet global climate goals. To accelerate those efforts, leaders at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow last year agreed to develop at least six green shipping corridors by 2025 and many more by 2030.

Los Angeles

Maritime shipping industry

Port congestion

News|The Daily Forty-Niner

IN PHOTOS: Environmental activists protest Target’s shipping pollution

April 29, 2022 — “I moved to Long Beach back in 2018, and I remember going to the ocean with some friends. They brought up that they weren’t going to swim, because they didn’t trust that the water was clean, and this was new to me."

News|Real Change News

Happy Earth Day, Mr. President: Seattleites protest Biden at executive order signing

April 27, 2022 — On Friday, local community members showed up in droves to watch President Joe Biden’s arrival at Seward Park. Environmental activists representing the “Ship It Zero” campaign were in attendance and held various signs encouraging Biden to commit to zero-emission shipping by 2030.

News|The Center Square

Biden signs old tree protection order on Seattle Earth Day visit

April 25, 2022 — Despite the president talking about his willingness to help fight global warming, advocates for various climate-conscious organizations and Republicans say Biden needs to do more.

News|Bunkerspot

West Coast Environmentalists Step Up Calls for Green Corridors and Zero-Emission Shipping

April 25, 2022 — As US President Joe Biden visited Seattle on Earth Day (Friday, 22 April), environmental activists held rallies in the nearby port as well as in Long Beach and Bellingham in support of their calls for a green shipping corridor between Seattle and Busan.

Biden

green corridor

Seattle

News|Cascadia Daily

Teenagers protest corporate ocean pollution

April 25, 2022 — Jack Beglin, 13, faked his death at the Bellingham Target on Earth Day, surrounded by classmates and teachers. He “died” peacefully, calling for the corporate giant and the entire maritime shipping industry to become more environmentally conscious.

Bellingham

Earth Day

Target

News|South Seattle Emerald

Environmental Activists Hold Earth Day Protest As Biden Visits Seward Park

April 25, 2022 — On Friday, local community members showed up in droves to watch President Joe Biden’s arrival at Seward Park. Environmental activists representing the “Ship It Zero” campaign were in attendance for the event and held various signs encouraging Biden to commit to zero-emission shipping by 2030.

Biden

Earth Day

Seattle

News|Maritime Executive

On Earth Day, Activists Call for Faster Action on Shipping Emissions

April 25, 2022 — Activists in three West Coast cities took to the streets on Earth Day to ask shipping to accelerate its plans for climate action - not by pressuring shipowners, but by appealing to their customers.