FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin Adopting new digital systems to help oceangoing container ships get in line to offload their cargo at busy ports appears to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 16-24%, according to researchers at UC Santa Barbara. According to the paper “Investigation of a port queuing system on CO2 emissions from container shipping”, the shipping industry is pursuing a diversity of strategies to meet its decarbonization goals, yet inefficiencies like traditional “first-come, first-served” port arrival systems, which encourages vessels to race to port to wait offshore, remain largely unaddressed despite their significant emissions impact. RelatedNews SSI charts the progress made under the Hong Kong Convention in new report Melina Travlos highlights shipping’s role as a force of stability amidst tension var jnews_module_21343530_0_6a04e52f4d9cf = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21343530","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"2969,2596,1668,528,1709","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagi