Japanese VLCC to help track emissions in the Indian Ocean

The Japanese government is sponsoring a project that will see atmospheric observation equipment installed on Iino Kaiun Kaisha’s four-year-old VLCC, Fujisan Maru, to track greenhouse gas emissions across the Indian Ocean. The ship, on charter to Idemitsu Tanker, tends to focus on Japan to Middle East routes.  Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) has …

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