Decarbonizing shipping

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Not directly about shipping, but fossile free steel is very relevant to ship building:

Northern Sweden sees world’s first battery-powered underground mine truck...

Not only is the truck battery-powered with zero carbon emission when driving. The huge dump box to carry the ore is the first made from fossil-free steel made by Nordic steel giant SSAB near Luleå.
Fossil-free steel is produced by using hydrogen instead of coal in the ore reduction process, emitting water instead of CO2.

The prototype was tested above ground last winter:

Last winter, the battery-powered mining truck was real-life tested at the Kittilä gold mine in northern Finland. Photo: Epiroc

Next step is to produce electric trucks from fossil free steel:

Also Volvo has signed a deal with SSAB to use fossil-free steel in the manufacturing of its electric trucks for road traffic.
Volvo started series production of its heavy-duty electric 44-tonne trucks in September, and the first trucks are already delivered to Amazon and the Danish shipping company DFDS.