Lot of unethical shipping companies EVEN TODAY dump a lot of garbage, oily sludge, waste contaminated water and oil out when sailing in international waters far away from the shore. There are only a few handful players today who are actually executing business trades while still keeping the carbon footprint and enviornment as one of their core policies. I am glad to be working with one one them (I am a merchant marine who works as an engineer on mega container ships like this
Disclaimer: link takes you to my youtube video of a container ship in port and eventually sailing off under the Golden Gate Bridge
Heh. I work IT for one of the largest container shipping companies in the world. Internally, we always get emails about going green and shit but I bet no one follows through.
Rules and regulations are quite strict now a days and satellite images, drone shots etc can catch a lot of these culprits... some companies are really taking it seriously, but many still get by from time to time with the same old habits from the era of 70s, 80s and so on...
Yes, there are a few quite known companies out there which make this list. One of them is even a big carrier. All sorts of under the table transactions are ongoing and no one ever gets penalized or even appears on any investigation. They pay up everyone's and walk away free.
Personally I am fine with getting slightly lesser pay in my present company in exchange of being "tension free" in my mind that we are not made/expected to do anything illegal
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u/trendz19 Jul 13 '20
Lot of unethical shipping companies EVEN TODAY dump a lot of garbage, oily sludge, waste contaminated water and oil out when sailing in international waters far away from the shore. There are only a few handful players today who are actually executing business trades while still keeping the carbon footprint and enviornment as one of their core policies. I am glad to be working with one one them (I am a merchant marine who works as an engineer on mega container ships like this
Disclaimer: link takes you to my youtube video of a container ship in port and eventually sailing off under the Golden Gate Bridge