Are green ships the solution?


Containers at the Port of Los Angeles. — ©️2023 The New York Times Company

ON a bright September day on the harbour in Copenhagen, several hundred people gathered to welcome the official arrival of Laura Maersk.

Laura was not a visiting European dignitary like many of those in attendance. She was a hulking containership, towering 33m above the crowd, and the most visible evidence to date of an effort by the global shipping industry to mitigate its role in the planet’s warming.

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