Carriers go their separate ways on climate quotas

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd have different estimates of how much customers will have to pay for the EU’s new CO2 allowances. ”It will be a big mess,” writes Sea-Intelligence.
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are the first of the major shipping companies to give their take on how the new CO2 quotas will affect their prices. | Photo: Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are the first of the major shipping companies to give their take on how the new CO2 quotas will affect their prices. | Photo: Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Customers can probably look forward to being faced with widely varying fees when shipping companies have to pay for their pollution in Europe from next year.

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