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European Commission study backs three short-term measures to speed up shipping’s decarbonisation
Ahead of this month’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, a study…
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Go slow movement driving shipping away from decarbonisation breakthroughs
Two wrongs don’t make a right. That was one of my Dad’s most annoying maxims that he’d deploy to drown…
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Survey highlights why enclosed space deaths remain alarmingly high
Seafarers and dock workers are still dying while working in enclosed spaces onboard vessels because there is not enough understanding…
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UK tipped to lead shipping’s hydrogen drive
The UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s official advisory body, yesterday recommended it adopt a “net zero” goal…
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Green ammonia touted as shipping’s silver bullet to decarbonise
A new report suggests green ammonia can be shipping’s silver bullet towards decarbinsation. International shipping can meet its target of…
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Shipping’s Uber moment far off
Mr Prospector doesn’t mind taking a few cheap shots at the broking community, but admits their role in the industry…
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Weekly Broker: Boxship sales soar
The dry bulk market is seeing a slight and slow recovery and upward trend in the past week, particularly in…
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Huge swathe of the merchant fleet predicted to fail to be ready for the sulphur cap
A very significant swathe of the global merchant fleet will be non-compliant during the first year of the sulphur cap,…
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Westgarth replaces El-Mokadem as CEO of V.Group
Less than two years after he was appointed CEO, V.Group has announced that Ian El-Mokadem is leaving the company. El-Mokadem…
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Unprecedented drought forces Panama Canal to impose further draft limits
Faced with an enormous drought brought about by El Nino, the Panama Canal Authority imposed yesterday further draft limits for…
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M/Maritime latest owner to join CTM’s Supramax RSA
The Mytilineos family’s M/Maritime is the third shipowner in under a month to join the Supramax Revenue Sharing Agreement, run…
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Teekay sells Teekay Offshore stake to Brookfield
Teekay Corporation has entered into an agreement to sell all of its remaining interests in Teekay Offshore Partners (TOP), including…
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Employee engagement is the responsibility of functional leaders
As a sequel to their article on talent management last week, Andy Lane, a partner at CTI Consultancy and Axel…
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Maersk now offering digital ocean customs clearance
Maersk has launched an industry-first customs clearance online shipping management platform in seven European countries – Germany, France, Denmark, The…
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No industry for old men
The first step in making a change is acknowledging the need for change and by that marker, the maritime industry…
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Port worker dies when crane catches fire while unloading coal at Kolkata
A port worker died on Saturday when a fire broke out on the mobile harbour crane he was operating caught…
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Coles takes Wallem ops to the cloud
The news from the Quarry Bay, Hong Kong headquarters of Wallem Group is coming thick and fast under new CEO…
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Cargo liquefaction the cause of over half of all deaths on dry bulk vessels in the past decade
International dry bulk shipping association Intercargo has published its latest annual bulk carrier casualty report, which highlights the ever present…
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As fires spike on boxships, focus turns to dangerous goods carriage
Following an above average period of disasters, class society ABS and representatives from the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) have…
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Liberian Registry: Shipowners must not get distracted
Alfonso Castillero has been following with interest all the debate over what skillsets shipping leaders need, something that has dominated…
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