Fossil Fuels Are 40% Of Freight Shipping Tonnage, But Half Its Fuel Use

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardJun 16, 2026, 1:34 pm126 ptsTrending
Maritime fuel debates usually start with the wrong object. They look at today’s bunker fuel demand, line up replacement molecules, and ask whether ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, LNG, biofuels, or synthetic fuels can scale far enough to replace it. That sounds like a practical question, but it skips the larger…

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