Ministry looks to control boat emissions
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The government is considering introducing regulations to control emissions from boats and ships, the environment ministry said yesterday.
Authorities earlier vowed to abandon a decades-old growth-at-all-costs economic model that has spoiled much of China’s water, skies and soil.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection said it is seeking public feedback on whether to pass the regulation, which could include new standards on marine fuel quality and usage.
“Environmental pollution problems caused by shipping are becoming more evident,” Xiong Yuehui, an official with the ministry, said in a statement on the ministry’s website.
China had 172,600 vessels in operation as on the end of 2013, the statement said.
The shipping sector accounted for more than 8 percent of China’s sulfur dioxide emissions and 11 percent of its nitrogen oxide emissions in 2013, he claimed.
Environmental regulations for ships are overseen globally by the International Maritime Organization. But while the IMO has cut pollution with controls in the United States and Europe, which use low-sulfur marine fuels as standard, Asia has been left untouched.
In October, a US environmental group said shipping was a major source of air pollution in China and that a single container ship emits as much pollution as 500,000 trucks.
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