Shipping group Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) plans to install hundreds of offshore charging stations around the world to allow vessels to power themselves with electricity instead of fossil fuels while waiting outside ports, it said on Tuesday. Maersk is aiming to limit carbon emissions and cut air pollution from the around 3,500 commercial vessels that each day consume fuel oil to generate power while lying idle at ports around the world. Congestion and bottlenecks at major ports like Shanghai, Rotterdam or Los Angeles during the pandemic due to lack of labor and growing import demand have resulted in more toxic exhaust fumes from ships waiting to discharge, causing health problems for nearby urban areas. read more Stillstrom, a new […]