What price to clean up shipping?

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Ed King suggests the shipping industry may be softening to the idea of a carbon tax

$100 a tonne by 2027. $130 a tonne by 2030. That was the view of shipping magnate Andreas Sohmen-Pao at the London International Shipping Week conference on Thursday. The chair of Singapore-headquartered...

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