Vaasa, Finland, Oct 23, 2025 (AFP) - Finnish carbon-neutral ferry aims to set global benchmark for shipping

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2025-10-23

In Finland, one of the world's first large passenger ferries to go carbon neutral aims to set the global standard for sustainable shipping, even as efforts to slash the industry's emissions face a backlash. No smoke billowed from the stacks of the Aurora Botnia, a 150-meter (492-foot) cargo and passenger ferry that can transport around 900 people, as it quietly crossed the narrow Gulf of Bothnia from Vaasa in Finland to Umea in Sweden, the world'......

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