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Global shipping is under pressure to stop its heavy fuel oil use fast – that’s not simple, but changes are coming

Written by Don Maier, Associate Professor of Business, University of Tennessee

Most of the clothing and gadgets you buy in stores today were once in shipping containers, sailing across the ocean. Ships carry over 80% of the world’s traded goods. But they have a problem – the majority of them burn heavy sulfur fuel oil, which is a driver of climate change.

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