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Slowing Ships Lowers Emissions. By Elisabeth Rosenthal, NYTimes, February 17, 2010. "It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday -- a week longer than it did two years ago. But for the owner, the Danish shipping giant Maersk, that counts as progress... By halving its top cruising speed over the last two years, Maersk cut fuel consumption on major routes by as much as 30%, greatly reducing costs. But the company also achieved an equal cut in the ships' emissions of greenhouse gases... In what reads as a commentary on modern life, Maersk advises in its corporate client presentation, 'Going at full throttle is economically and ecologically questionable.'"