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Probably hard to do in international waters but the bigger countries could always just say that any vessel doing this is blacklisted from docking in their ports
by newguy1234 7y ago
Probably hard to do in international waters but the bigger countries could always just say that any vessel doing this is blacklisted from docking in their ports. Every ship operator would just retrofit their vessels if that were to occur.
- cies 7y agoExactly. I was gonna say that by some international port blacklist we can easily punish them, and of force them to make a huuuuuge donation to a clean-up fund in order to have the ban lifted.
- cannonedhamster 7y agoNo way the free market has an invisible hand. That have is gonna show up one day and consumers are just going to love it. Promise. Any day now. /s
- delfinom 7y agoThe US and China have already defined rules to prevent it.
- mperham 7y agoAccording to the article, they've added rules that the ships can't discharge within their national waters. So the ships will discharge right outside that line. Nothing is prevented, only delayed.