MSC Cruises scuttles LNG adverts after 'greenwashing' complaint

Stuart Stone
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Credit: MSC Cruises

Nine-month ASA investigation a shot across the bows of cruise operators marketing LNG as 'green' fuel, NGO claims

MSC Cruises has agreed to remove adverts promoting liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a "cleaner fuel" and a "clean, green technology" following a greenwashing complaint by environmental NGO Opportunity Green....

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