March 30th, 20201Less than three months after being introduced the global sulphur cap risks being another victim of the coronavirus with news from the UK where authorities have publicly...
March 25th, 20200Container shipping companies are celebrating news that they will continue to be exempt from antitrust rules against anti-competitive agreements for a further four years...
March 24th, 20200On the UN International Day for the Right to The Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, the UK-based charity Human Rights at Sea,...
March 19th, 20200Indonesia's government will revoke cabotage rules due to come into force in May, Reuters reports citing comments from the country’s coordinating minister for...
March 16th, 20200The MSC Joanna, a 9,200 teu boxship, has been banned from calling in UAE waters for a year and the ship’s master cannot work on any ships visiting the Middle Eastern...
March 12th, 20200The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) closed its headquarters today as a precautionary measure to the spread of the coronavirus. IMO staff are working from home...
March 2nd, 20200Port state control authorities began to enforce the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) fuel carriage ban yesterday, whereby ships without a scrubber cannot...
March 2nd, 20200The challenge of achieving net zero carbon emissions should be shared along the supply chain, not placed on shipowners alone, says Chris Chatterton from the Methanol...
February 27th, 20200The China Shipowners Association (CSA) has called for a suspension of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) global sulphur cap in local waters as the country's...
February 27th, 20200Restrictions on the use of open-loop scrubbers are spreading across Europe with the Standard Club reporting France, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar have all initiated...
February 26th, 20200The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) has appointed Punit Oza as its new executive director effective from March 1. Oza brings over 25 years experience...
February 25th, 20200Is there a discernible scrapping trend brought about by the eight-week-old global sulphur cap? Jason Jiang investigates. The new IMO sulphur regulations, coupled with...
February 21st, 20200Once again regulators were on the receiving end of an earful at a shipping conference yesterday with shipowners increasingly irate at their inability to be able to order...
February 21st, 20200A host of shipping’s most powerful states and associations have come round to support Japan’s controversial ship power limiting proposals as the best bet for the...
February 19th, 20200The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has failed to clean up shipping’s carbon footprint so the European Union ought to take the lead, a new coalition of...
February 17th, 20204Scrubbers and their questionable discharge are back in the news today with the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) and its sub-committee on pollution...
February 12th, 20200The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has had a busy start to the year trying to shape the future carbon footprint of shipping. Last month the...
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