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Shipping is searching for its Airbus moment in showdown with EU

The EU Commission will before long decide on how the shipping sector should be placed under the European Emissions Trading System. One area in particular is decisive to Maersk and the rest of the sector.
The container sector's interest group World Shipping Council warns the EU against too far-reaching measures if it decides to include shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System, ETS. | Photo: PR / Dietmar Hapenpusch / Port of Hamburg Marketing Association
The container sector's interest group World Shipping Council warns the EU against too far-reaching measures if it decides to include shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System, ETS. | Photo: PR / Dietmar Hapenpusch / Port of Hamburg Marketing Association
by KATRINE GRØNVALD RAUN

When the international aviation sector looked set to become part of the EU's Emissions Trading Systems, ETS, for carbon quotas for real, political superpowers such as the US and China intensified their warnings.

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