In the air or at sea: how investments in transportation ports can support a transition to net-zero goals

Airports are not the only commercial transportation industry impacted by the push to net-zero targets. Ocean-based ports support the over 90 per cent of global trade that rely on ships as the most cost-effective means of transporting goods.

On Dec. 1, 2023, Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced the creation of the Green Shipping Corridor Program, intended to help decarbonize the marine sector in major shipping areas along the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and Canada’s east and west coasts.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KERRY BLACK

April 8, 2024

A year ago, the World Economic Forum released a statement on the necessary investments in airport infrastructure that they deemed were necessary to support hydrogen and electrification of the aircraft industry by 2050. According to the report, global demand would require air...

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