Today, on the opening day of the "London International Shipping Week" underway in the English capital, The British government has announced investments of more than 1.1 billion pounds with the aim of promoting growth and employment in the UK's coastal towns will include £448 million of public investment to reducing emissions from maritime transport and 700 million of private investment. Public resources will be used to strengthen the government's UK Shore programme, under which 240 million euros have already been disbursed, to over 200 projects, which supports the activities of the research and development of new technologies to reduce emissions shipping, including the development of marine fuels Clean.

'This appropriation of £1.1 billion for maritime industry - highlighted the Secretary for Transport, Heidi Alexander - will boost growth and employment in our coastal cities, making the The United Kingdom one of the best places in the world to invest. There We are committing to invest almost half a billion pounds to reducing carbon emissions from shipping, guiding us towards the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 and consolidating Britain's role as a superpower through our "Plan for Change". Under the UK Shore Programme, the government provides funding to businesses and academia, enabling them to to carry out innovative and ecological projects and to exploit additional private sector investment to provide that reduce carbon emissions from transport maritime".