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First off, let's get the facts regarding Shipping of Materials from around the world.
Shipping is THE most energy efficient method of transportation!
For those who say that container shipping is the biggest producer of pollution, please see the following link and information regarding the energy efficiency of shipping versus all other modes of freight transportation. It also gets the "best miles per gallon"! BTU usage per ton of freight, per mile, is better than the truck that brings it from the docks to the site, even! Shipping is by far the best way to send any kind of freight.
According to an Australian government domestic shipping report: "Shipping supports 28 percent of the domestic freight task (Table 1), consumes 9.6 percent of the total energy used in freight transportation, but contributes to just 2 percent of the total emissions from the transport sector." -(italics/bold added for emphasis)
To see the report, please click on this link here:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/trs/networks/subs/sub013a.pdf
Just because a ship is bigger, doesn't mean it pollutes more. The other modes of transportation that it replaces would pollute FAR MORE if they were used in place of container ships. Shipping produces the least amount of pollution per mile!
Graph of Pollution, Grams per Kilometer per one Ton of Freight. -Data for viewing here:
http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment/air-emissions/carbon-emissions
The Wine Industry did a study that shows that a bottle of French Wine sold at a restaurant in NYC had a smaller carbon footprint getting there, versus a bottle of California Wine. Another fact: the World Economic Forum "found that the entire container voyage from China to Europe is equaled in CO2 emissions by about 200 kilometers of long-haul trucking in Europe. So, for most freight, which is slow moving, there is not really a green benefit to moving production to Europe." In other words, moving a factory from China to the E.U. is not going to necessarily lower CO2 emissions.
See article here for this information:
http://www.worldshipping.org/benefits-of-liner-shipping/low-environmental-impact
For more information on what the Shipping Industry is doing to improve it's carbon/pollution footprint, please check out this link:
http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment
For those who say that container shipping is the biggest producer of pollution, please see the following link and information regarding the energy efficiency of shipping versus all other modes of freight transportation. It also gets the "best miles per gallon"! BTU usage per ton of freight, per mile, is better than the truck that brings it from the docks to the site, even! Shipping is by far the best way to send any kind of freight.
According to an Australian government domestic shipping report: "Shipping supports 28 percent of the domestic freight task (Table 1), consumes 9.6 percent of the total energy used in freight transportation, but contributes to just 2 percent of the total emissions from the transport sector." -(italics/bold added for emphasis)
To see the report, please click on this link here:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/trs/networks/subs/sub013a.pdf
Just because a ship is bigger, doesn't mean it pollutes more. The other modes of transportation that it replaces would pollute FAR MORE if they were used in place of container ships. Shipping produces the least amount of pollution per mile!
Graph of Pollution, Grams per Kilometer per one Ton of Freight. -Data for viewing here:
http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment/air-emissions/carbon-emissions
The Wine Industry did a study that shows that a bottle of French Wine sold at a restaurant in NYC had a smaller carbon footprint getting there, versus a bottle of California Wine. Another fact: the World Economic Forum "found that the entire container voyage from China to Europe is equaled in CO2 emissions by about 200 kilometers of long-haul trucking in Europe. So, for most freight, which is slow moving, there is not really a green benefit to moving production to Europe." In other words, moving a factory from China to the E.U. is not going to necessarily lower CO2 emissions.
See article here for this information:
http://www.worldshipping.org/benefits-of-liner-shipping/low-environmental-impact
For more information on what the Shipping Industry is doing to improve it's carbon/pollution footprint, please check out this link:
http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment
