Seattle and Vancouver explore green cruise ship corridor

The North American ports of Seattle and Vancouver have teamed up with a host of cruise lines to look into whether a green shipping corridor can be set up on the Pacific Coast.

PHOTO: Map of potential green shipping corridor between Juneau, Alaska and Seattle and Vancouver. Port of Seattle

The ports say it would be the world’s first “cruise-led ‘green corridor’”, arguing it could help rein in emissions from the nearly 300 ships that sail between Alaska and Washington during the six-month cruise season.

Green corridors can showcase that zero-emission shipping is technologically economically and regulatorily feasible, and will use the corridor to pilot zero-emission fuel and ship technologies.

This year has seen a burgeoning exploration of green corridors across the globe, spanning northern European and Baltic Sea ports, and from Chile to Europe. At last year’s COP26 summit, 22 countries committed to establish green shipping corridors through the Clydebank Declaration.