Shipping Regulatory News Archive - Maritime Law Updates

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Sulphur distraction

June 8th, 20184 Captain Ed Enos, a keen Splash reader, laments a missed opportunity by shipowners this week to properly address the looming sulphur cap at Posidonia. With feigned...

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Veniamis hits out at shipping being targeted more than other industries during Posidonia’s opening

June 5th, 20180 Monday evening saw Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras preside over the official opening ceremony of the Splash-sponsored Posidonia exhibition, which this year...

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‘The next 30 years will see more change than in the past 100 years’: IMO secretary-general

June 4th, 20181 Kitack Lim, secretary general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), made his pitch today to keep the UN body at the centre of global shipping...

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US Congress introduces cabotage bill to boost shipbuilding

May 23rd, 20181 Bi-partisan legislation was introduced to Congress on Tuesday, a bill with the aim of requiring that quotas of vessels carrying US crude oil and liquefied natural gas...

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India relaxes cabotage laws

May 23rd, 20180 India is finally relenting to calls from global containerlines, and will ease its cabotage rules. The government has decreed that foreign boxlines will now be allowed to...

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Australian politician seeks to capsize livestock shipping

May 22nd, 20180 An Australian politician introduced legislation to parliament yesterday to ban the export of live sheep. The government has introduced a series of changes to...

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White House looks to streamline regulations for shipping

May 22nd, 20180 An office attached to the US White House is seeking public input on ways to streamline maritime regulations, with special emphasis on commercial shipping. The Office...

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New Zealand introduces strict biofouling rules

May 18th, 20180 New Zealand has become the first country in the world to introduce biofouling rules across the nation’s waters. “About 90% of non-indigenous marine species in New...

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Shipping’s sulphur cap will spur crude prices to reach $90 a barrel: Morgan Stanley

May 17th, 20182 Brent crude will reach $90 a barrel by 2020 thanks to the IMO’s impending sulphur cap on shipping, a new report from Morgan Stanley maintains. The 0.5% sulphur cap...

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Canberra introduces sweeping changes to livestock shipments

May 17th, 20180 A federal government-ordered review into live sheep exports from Australia – carried out in the wake of a high profile, shocking television documentary - has...

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the IMO

April 18th, 201810 Rather than apologise to legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, I should probably start by apologising to the IMO. Like fellow Splash columnist Andrew Craig-Bennett, I too...

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Practical aspects of the IMO MEPC 72

April 17th, 20184 I mentioned, a few days ago, that in the future, as the ‘open range’ that the high seas have been, since the days of Hubertus Grotius and the concept of ‘Mare...

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Weasel words give owners breathing space in the emissions debate

April 16th, 20187 There was a convention amongst shipping journalists that one did not criticise the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation (IMCO). However curious their...

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Arctic heavy fuel oil ban gains traction

April 16th, 20180 As well as the historic first ever cap on greenhouse gas emissions agreed last week at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), member states also took steps...

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Deal struck to halve shipping GHG emissions by 2050

April 14th, 20180 Just after 3pm UK time on Friday more than 170 nations agreed to move ahead with an initial strategy to halve shipping’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 2008...

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Hyundai Heavy runs out of offshore work
South Korean shipbuilding major Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has announced that it will suspend... Jun 22nd, 2018 inShipyards
This is why jackup rig dayrates will double
David Carter Shinn from Norwegian offshore rig brokerage and advisory Bassoe Offshore reckons it's... Jun 22nd, 2018 inOffshore
The Great Reversal: US crude and the diverse forces shaping tanker markets
Reduced floating storage, the high level of deliveries and mixed impact of increased US crude... Jun 22nd, 2018 inContributions
Korea’s largest steel mill gets shipping partners to install scrubbers
Korea, Inc has thrown its weight behind scrubbers. In a significant move, POSCO, one of the top... Jun 22nd, 2018 inEnvironment
HMM denies it is preparing for life without Maersk and MSC
January 1, 2020 marks a date creating headaches for shipowners around the world as they gear up for... Jun 20th, 2018 inContainers
Should HMM stay or go?
On March 16 2017, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) inked a three-year strategic cooperation agreement... Jun 20th, 2018 inOpinion

Diana Shipping newcastlemax gets pay rise from Koch

Danaos seals $2.2bn debt refinancing

Wilhelmsen Ship Management adds UK office, targets ambitious growth

Angelicoussis back at DSME for another LNG carrier

Negligent homicide charge dropped against commander of USS Fitzgerald

Yangzijiang wins more newcastlemax orders

Cox Oil agrees on $322m buyout of EGC

Generator fire doused on Great Lakes bulker, USCG to investigate

GMS adds to its growing operational fleet

Shelf Drilling to list in Oslo on Monday

Shelf Drilling IPO oversubscribed

Rowan jackup gets three-year Saudi Aramco contract

Hyundai Heavy runs out of offshore work

Korea’s largest steel mill gets shipping partners to install scrubbers

Sungdong Shipbuilding seeks new owners

Ocean Network Express shifts from road to rail in the UK

COSL secures jackup contracts from Aramco

Worker dies after falling off ship at Beihai Shipbuilding

Cosco’s huge swathe of boxships still to deliver this year puts liners on edge

Cosco offers US authorities Long Beach terminal solution to solve OOCL takeover

Greek owners eye post-Brexit London