South Korean and US ports formalize green shipping corridor agreement

South Korea’s Busan Port Authority (BPA) and the Ulsan Port Authority and the United States’ Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA), the Port of Tacoma (PoT) and the Port of Seattle have penned a formal agreement aiming to strengthen efforts in establishing a green shipping corridor.

As officials from environmental organization Pacific Environment have shared, the NWSA has been working with a number of partners over the past three years on the U.S.-South Korea green shipping corridor project that targets examining the feasibility of speeding up the transition to zero or net-zero (ZNZ) marine fuels across trade lanes between the NWSA gateway and the ports of Busan and Ulsan.

The organization has voiced support for the formalization of the multi-port memorandum of understanding, which reportedly originated in 2024.

“Electrifying ports and moving ships to zero emissions reduces the health risks of air pollution for portside communities and port workers. We applaud the ports’ action to protect communities and port workers from toxic pollution and climate change impacts,”Fern Uennatornwaranggoon, Climate Campaign Ports Director at Pacific Environment, commented.

As disclosed, the cooperation under the MoU