PRODUCTION OF CO2 EMISSIONS FROM MARITIME CONTAINER SHIPPING IN COMPARISON WITH ROAD CONTAINER TRANSPORT

Maritime trade accounts for approximately 90% of whole world trade. Maritime Container Shipping is one of the fastest growing branches in the world. It can often be found in the literature, that container shipping is the largest polluter in the world, which requires measures that reduce the speed of ships to slow steaming between 18 - 20 knots. Although transport is one of the human most important activities nowadays, is responsible for 40% of CO2 emissions. In maritime transport, CO2 emissions are still hardly regulated especially in international shipping. No such an adequate model, to determine the exact payer of occurred emissions, have been discovered until now. The research shows the difference between maritime container shipping and road container transport and the percentage of CO2 emissions that road transport represents when transhipping a container from Warehouse in the country of origin to Warehouse in the destination country. The research has shown that road container transport would emit much more CO2 emissions than maritime container shipping. Throughout the research, an average container vessel of 8,000 TEU capacity, sailing at 21 knots and consuming 150 tons of bunker fuel oil was used for calculations. The aim of this paper, based on literature review, is the analysis of advantages and consequences of maritime container shipping pollution. The main accent is given to a speed reduction of container vessels for few knots and to this related significant drop of CO2 emissions.