world of warships got 10 flags out of a super container

But despite the climate goal and some efficiency gains over the past decades, the sector continues to be slow to implement concrete, short-term measures to cut emissions. Climate advocates welcomed this as a step forward, even if the goal was not as ambitious as needed to align with the Paris Agreement target of limiting temperature rise to 'well below 2C', let alone the efforts to limit it to 1.5C. In 2018, countries at the UN shipping body the International Maritime Organization (IMO) agreed on a goal to halve emissions in the sector by 2050, compared with 2008 levels. “Really, the only restrictions on how long she can stay at sea is water and food on board for the crew.” The system also has the means to capture energy from underwater propellers as well as solar power, so electricity will be available for the engine when needed. “The thing that sets Ceiba apart is the fact that she'll have one of the largest marine electric engines of her kind in the world,” Danielle Doggett, managing director and cofounder of Sailcargo, tells me as we shelter from the hot sun below her treehouse office at the shipyard. Once on the water, she will be capable of crossing oceans entirely without the use of fossil fuels. Made largely of timber, Ceiba combines both very old and very new technology: sailing masts stand alongside solar panels, a uniquely designed electric engine and batteries. In a small, rustic shipyard on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, a small team is building what they say will be the world’s largest ocean-going clean cargo ship.Ĭeiba is the first vessel built by Sailcargo, a company trying to prove that zero-carbon shipping is possible, and commercially viable.

World of warships got 10 flags out of a super container