LONDON: A surge of attacks on ships travelling the waters of the Red Sea is forcing shippers to reroute their vessels, sending them on longer journeys that drive up their carbon dioxide emissions. For
is forcing shippers to reroute their vessels, sending them on longer journeys that drive up their carbon dioxide emissions.
A large container ship’s journey from Shanghai to Hamburg, for example, emits 38 per cent more CO2, or 4.32 million kilogrammes, if it goes around Africa instead of through the Suez Canal, according to data pulled for Reuters by LSEG. The reroutings"are not planned", International Maritime Organization chief Arsenio Dominguez told a news conference last month, and the additional CO2 release is"not emitted because we want to".
The Denmark-based dairy company Arla Foods, which makes Lurpak butter, is already juggling higher costs."Due to the conflict in the Red Sea, our emission has also gone up equally 1-1 with the cost" of shipping, said the company’s supply chain sustainability chief, Mia Høj Bredal. Other vessels coming from the north headed for the Suez Canal and made it halfway through the Red Sea, before turning back. This added even more time to those journeys.Shipping, which accounts for 2.9 per cent of global CO2 emissions, has largely escaped taxation because the high seas are not in the jurisdiction of any one government.
The harm from shipping emissions does not come from planet-warming CO2 alone, but also from the sulphates and black soot that billow out from a ship’s smokestack. Those airborne pollution particles allow shipping emissions to sometimes be seen from space."Ship tracks" materialise as water vapour condenses around the particles.
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