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原文传递 Cleaning up

题名：	Cleaning up
正文语种：	eng
作者：	INES NASTALI
摘要：	With this last 2023 edition of Ports & Harbors going to press, I thought it is time to look back at the past year and the achievements we have made and the issues we face. I am of course not the first to do so. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, or UNCTAD as it is better known in maritime circles, published its Review of Maritime Trade while we produced this magazine. One of its findings is a stark reminder of the long way we still have to go to cut emissions from ships and port operations. Those have increased over the past decade, a trend that might be halted with help of the IMO-approved pathway to achieve net zero around 2050, which was agreed by the regulator's Marine Environment Protection Committee this year. When we look closer at the UNCTAD data, we find an interesting correlation: when the import surge of the pandemic and subsequent backlog in ports slowed down port efficiency and increased waiting times in ports, maritime emissions also spiked. Especially in the dry bulk and container sectors, this is noticeable. Most affected ports are located in developed countries that, one would assume, have budget to install more, newer, and automated equipment to handle short-term surges. However, this does not seem to be the case.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Ports & harbors
卷：	68
期：	6
页码：	2-3