Hello, welcome to the BBC's Business Daily from the port of Workington on the northwest coast of England.

I'm Fergus Nicol and today I'm exploring the efforts of the maritime sector to make their industry more environmentally sustainable.

We'll hear about a new electric freight vessel in Norway.

It will have no CO2 emission. It will be charged with renewable electrical energy from the

Norwegian grid. And perhaps most important, it has really boosted the discussion and the

attention to green maritime transport. And later we'll hear about the work of green marine in North America and beyond.

For the moment in North America, there's still not much regulation for greenhouse gases for the

shipping industry. So whatever the baseline is, the regulatory baseline, we go above and beyond.

It's a blustery morning on the northwest coast of England,

and a 1,200-ton cargo vessel is being unloaded at the port of Workington.

The C.E.G Galaxy has brought 154 packs of sawn timber, that's around 260 tonnes worth,

and 900 tonnes of loose woodbark down the coast from Scotland.

The crane's bucket dips into the galaxy's steelhold,

scoops up the bark and transfers it to the growing pile on the quay side.

This is an example of coastal shipping, taking freight off the roads and off the rails. The port manager here at Workington is Sven Richards. The modern history of the port of Workington is with the steel

industry and it was at one point one of the largest steel exporting ports in the country across

the then British Empire.

And since then, predominantly we've specialised in wood products from logs to pulp,

from paper making, to saw and timber for the building and DIY trade.

And just lately we started to progress into other cargoes, for example, aggregate cement for the building industry.

What role does a smaller regional port like Workington play in the wider drive towards

decarbonisation? For me, you couldn't have found a more exciting time for a local regional port.

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