Slightly more than every seventh vessel in the global orderbook is being built to sail on alternative fuels, shows new analysis from Clarksons Research.
Overall, shipping companies and other players have ordered 776 ships set to sail on alternative fuels. This figure is equivalent to 15.2 percent of the global orderbook. The figure is, however, higher looking at the ships' total size in gross tonnage.
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