International shipping companies and ports worldwide going green

Global shipping is a huge business — and a relatively huge contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. But the International Maritime Organization aims to change that by cutting its emission to zero by 2050. To this end, individual ports are changing the way they do business and new ships are using different types of fuel. David Kattenburg reports.

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