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Shipping Council calls for end to lithium battery loophole

The World Shipping Council (WSC) is calling on governments to address a gap in international dangerous goods rules that allows shippers to stuff thousands of lithium batteries into containers without telling the carrier. WSC says that Special Provision 188 of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code exempts smaller batteries from certain requirements when they meet specified testing, packaging and capacity criteria but there is no limit on how many exempt batteries ... [+]

ETS changes are step in right direction, says shipping group

The World Shipping Council has welcomed revisions, published on 17 July, to the European Commission’s Emissions Trading Scheme saying that they will accelerate alternative maritime fuels and channel revenues back into shipping decarbonisation. The proposed fuel mechanism for the maritime sector follows the policy logic already used in aviation by helping ... [+]