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The good news is that China, the world leader in electric vehicle production a
nd use, has launched the world’s first all-electric, 2,200-ton cargo ship. Th
e bad news is that the groundbreaking vessel is being used to haul coal.

好消息是中國，世界電子車輛製造以及運輸的領頭羊，先啟動了全世界第一座2200噸的電
子貨運船。但壞消息是中國那艘突破性的新科技，是用來載煤礦用的。

Since shipping is poorly regulated and runs almost entirely on heavy fuel oil,
濳he trillion-dollar industry is a major polluter. Major ports are notorious f
or having unhealthy air.

因為海上運輸的規定比較少，而且幾乎都是大量使用重油。這個能夠帶來大量金錢的企業
是很大的污染源。很多大港都是以污染為名。

And even though the industry generates some?3 percent of global carbon polluti
on, the 2015 Paris climate agreement doesn’t even cover shipping, since it ta
rgets emissions毪y滢ations, not transport毪etween濳hem.

雖然這個產業製造3%左右的碳污染，2015巴黎協定卻沒有把他放入限制中，因為巴黎協定
強調是國家的污染，而不是國與國之間運輸產生的污染。

That leaves much of the job of cleaning up the industry to individual companie
s.嚒o it should be a welcome moment that China’suangzhou Shipyard Internati
onal has launched “the world’s first electric ship with a capacity” of 2,20
0 tons, as the澵tate-run Global Times澑eported汢arlier this month.

這使得想要達到減少污染的工作變得非常困難，所以當Global Times提到中國廣州船塢公
司宣布他們啟用「世界第一艘2200噸的電子船時」，應該要感到開心。

The ship is short-haul: It can travel about 50 miles with its?1,000 lithium ba
tteries after two-hour charge, which is the loading and unloading time for the
 ship, state news site ChinaNews.com澑eports. So it can be charged while it is
 docking.

根據ChinaNews.com，船能夠載的距離不遠：他可以在兩小時(卸貨以及裝貨的時間)充電
後，用1000個鋰電池走50英里。所以他在停靠時剛好可以充電。

Sadly, the Chinese spoiled the launch of this otherwise green cargo ship by us
ing it to transport氲oal for electricity generation on the Pearl River in Guan
gdong Province. The ship can carry up to 2,300 tons of coal, though ChinaNews.
com reports such vessels could in the future be used for “passenger ships, ro
-ro ships [roll-on/roll-off vessels carrying wheeled cargo] engineering vessel
s” and澵imilar purposes.



"This kind of ship takes into consideration the harmony between humans and nat
ure and can protect water quality and marine life, and should be copied by oth
er ships sailing on local rivers,” Chinese environmentalist咗ang Yongchen tol
d the Global Times.

中國環保專家王永成跟Global Times說「這種船將人類以及大自然合平共處，因為它可以
保護水的品質以及海洋生物，其他的地方的河流應該都要效仿才是。」

Certainly running on electricity of any kind is better for the local environme
nt than burning heavy fuel oil. But moving rapidly off of coal generation is t
he only way China can ensure that the total lifecycle emissions of transportin
g cargo on an all-electric ship is beneficial to both their country’s air qua
lity and the world’s effort to preserve a livable climate.



備註：好啦 電子船還是給點掌聲XD

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