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How the Biggest, Dirtiest Ships May One Day Go Green

Electrifying massive container vessels comes with inherent problems, but there are new solutions that can diminish their carbon footprint.

Accelerate: How the Dirtiest Ships May One Day Go Green

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Shipping goods across the seas makes up 90% of global trade, a fact that comes with huge environmental costs. But thanks to some ambitious engineers, pollution-spewing ships may soon get a whole lot greener.

In this episode of Bloomberg’s Accelerate, we dive into the inherent problems with electrifying massive oceangoing vessels, and the novel solutions that can start to diminish their dangerous carbon footprint.