Singapore, one of the world’s busiest transshipment hubs, will join the Clydebank Declaration, a shipping green corridor initiative initially unveiled at COP 26 in Glasgow last November. The Clydebank Declaration’s signatories have promised to collaborate to encourage the creation of green shipping corridors, which are defined as zero-emission marine routes connecting two or more port pairs.
S Iswaran, the republic’s transport minister, opened Singapore Maritime Week by announcing his country’s decision to join the green shipping treaty as the 23rd signatory. The European Green Corridors Network was launched last week by the Maersk Mc-Kinney Mller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping in collaboration with the port administrations of Hamburg, Gdynia, Roenne, Rotterdam, and Tallinn.
The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Shanghai have committed to create a green shipping corridor on one of the world’s busiest container shipping routes, while last November the Belgian port of Antwerp and the Canadian port of Montreal signed a cooperation agreement to support the creation of a green shipping corridor in the North Atlantic.
