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

News|AJOT

Companies must act to abandon dirty ships: New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution

March 4, 2023 — New research released today by the Ship It Zero campaign finds that Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021, as e-commerce demands skyrocketed in the U.S. and globally.

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Amazon

IKEA

News|Canary Media

America’s pandemic shopping haul arrived on dirty cargo ships

March 4, 2023 — A new report aims to quantify the environmental toll of transporting all of those products by sea. The analysis, released on Wednesday by the Ship It Zero coalition, tracks goods imported by 18 major retailers and consumer brands during that frenzied year.

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the home depot

News|Popular Science

Pandemic shipping took a heavy toll on the climate

March 4, 2023 — Many Americans remained locked down and logged online throughout 2021, changing the way people shopped for countless goods and services. Initial coverage frequently focused on the ensuing supply chain woes, but new research is showcasing another grave consequence to all that consumption—the ocean shipping industry boom generated massive amounts of greenhouse gasses.

all brands on deck

the home depot

International Container Cargo ship in the ocean, Freight Transpo

News|Bunkerspot

AMERICAS: US BRANDS ‘NEGLECTING THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO EXTEND THEIR CLIMATE COMMITMENTS TO THE SEAS’, SAYS NEW SHIP IT ZERO REPORT

March 4, 2023 — The climate action Ship It Zero campaign has released new research showing that, among US brands, ‘Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021’.

all brands on deck

the home depot

News|The Loadstar

COP27: Piecemeal approach keeps us on the highway to climate hell

November 15, 2022 — This week the Ship It Zero campaign berated retail giant Walmart for its failure to join in with emissions abatement measures that would ultimately reduce the company’s climate footprint.

News|TradeWinds

Green Seas: Cargo owners aim to use their buying power for clean shipping fuels. Is it enough?

October 13, 2022 — Yet the company is aiming to have 100% of its shipping powered by zero-carbon fuels in 2040, without offsets. And it is among founding members of Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels, or COZEV, an alliance of shippers, that have signed on to the same goal.

News|Politico

Anti-anti-ESG strikes back

September 9, 2022 — The Minneapolis city council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday calling on the country's biggest importing companies to transition to zero-emission goods movement via ships by 2030. The environmental group Pacific Environment, which is behind the resolution, said it had found success pushing IKEA and Amazon to commit to only purchasing zero-emissions vessels by 2040.

News|Ship & Bunker

Target Corporation faces local government call for net-zero shipping by 2030

September 9, 2022 — Minneapolis-based US retailer Target Corporation is facing a call from its local government to commit to using shipping with net -zero GHG emissions by 2030. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday calling for U.S. firms to commit to making all imports to the country come on net-zero emissions ships by 2030, environmental group Ship it Zero said in a statement on its website in Thursday.

News|Marine Insight

Amazon to adopt hydrogen fuel in 2025 to decarbonize Its operations

September 1, 2022 — Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen – starting in 2025 – to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations.

News|Safety4Sea

Amazon to adopt zero-emission fuel after 2021 carbon emissions increase

August 31, 2022 — Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen, starting in 2025, to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations.