TradeWinds was unable to find out from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) how it chooses its target shipping companies and why 2021’s list has one particularly obscure choice.

The global non-profit investors' organisation has this year targeted nine "marine transportation" companies for failing to disclose their responses to climate change.

But shipping companies responding to TradeWinds' enquiries that suggested their engagement with the CDP was linked to interest from major investors or customers in obtaining more information about how they are tackling climate change.