By Louis de Briant ( August 28, 2026, 12:02 GMT | Comment) -- The EU's maritime Emissions Trading System review seeks to make shipping cleaner without pushing activity away from European ports, but its design may pull those goals in opposite directions. Industry and environmental groups warn that unclear funding priorities could favor less sustainable fuels. Tighter rules for ports where cargo is transferred between ships, aimed at preventing ETS avoidance, raise concerns over their impact on port competitiveness.The EU's Emissions Trading System review, proposed in July, aims to make shipping more sustainable, but leaves crucial choices over how the money will be spent, how transshipment rules will operate — transshipment occurs when containers are unloaded at one port and transferred to another ship — and how companies will be protected from paying twice for the same emissions, industry and environmental groups say....
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