Environmentalism Makes Good Business Sense for the Transportation Industry

摘要

I will focus my comments today on an issue of great significance to our industry and the world. This issue is the environment, a subject that might have once been dismissed within shipping industry circles as commercially insignificant. This year marks the 50th anniversary of containerization. During these last 50 years, the service scope of ocean carriers has been extended from a port-to-port service to a vast intermodal network and the emergence of end-to-end international logistics. Ocean transportation has made this possible with more than 75 percent of global trade carried over the seas.