‘Pink Corridor’ Project to Study Nuclear-Powered Container Route Across Atlantic

Lloyd’s Register, A.P. Moller-Maersk and two major container ports are teaming up to examine what it would take to operate a nuclear-powered containership between the United States and United Kingdom.

The initiative, dubbed the “Pink Corridor,” brings together Lloyd’s Register, Maersk, South Carolina Ports and the Port of Felixstowe to study a theoretical nuclear-powered container shipping route between Charleston and Felixstowe.

The project is not aimed at putting a nuclear-powered containership into service anytime soon. Instead, it will focus on the regulatory and operational groundwork that would have to be completed before such a service could become possible.

Using a conceptual