Both companies developed specialist vessels equipped with derricks to handle heavy loads including rail locomotives for shipping to India and Africa in the 1920s.
When it comes to the climate crisis, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the headline villain. But methane (CH4), which accounts for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution, is also worrying ocean scientists.
With 90 percent of global trade travelling by sea, the sector accounts for approximately three percent of global emission. Has recent start-up Seabound developed an important technical solution to the pollution problem?
We speak to Bjørn Åge Hjøllo, Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at NAVTOR, about data-driven decarbonisation and how real-time reporting and artificial intelligence (AI) can expose inefficiencies.