T&E’s ranking of Europe’s ports by carbon emissions puts the spotlight on ports to do more to clean up shipping while industry profits soar. The port of Rotterdam is associated with almost 14 million tonnes of CO2 each year, putting it on a par with Europe’s fifth biggest industrial polluter – the Weisweiler coal power plant in Germany – a new study ranking ports’ carbon emissions shows. Antwerp and Hamburg come in second and third, while three of the top 10 polluting ports are in Spain. In a year of bumper profits for the industry, Transport & Environment (T&E) calls on ports to get behind EU-wide efforts to reduce shipping’s climate impact. (....)