October 16th, 20195Emmanuel Macron is doing more than just about any other major world politician to change the shipping industry. Having personally backed calls to mandate slow steaming,...
October 9th, 20191We’re into the final quarter of the decade, one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of commercial shipping. The past 10 years have seen the world’s...
October 7th, 20191Bob Sanguinetti, CEO of the UK Chamber of Shipping, writes exclusively for Splash today. As more protests hit the streets of London this week, attention again turns...
October 3rd, 20195The editor told me the world is my oyster, I have a free rein to discuss what I like in this column. He might live to regret that. First up, let me get something off...
October 3rd, 20190Hong Kong’s shipping arbitration focus has stepped up a gear. Arthur Bowring, best known as the long serving managing director of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association,...
October 2nd, 20192There is now a united front coalescing against slow steaming with Maersk coming out in support of BIMCO’s proposal to limit ship’s power systems as a way to cut...
October 1st, 20190Major shipowning body BIMCO has come out broadly in favour of a Japanese proposal to regulate the propulsion power of ships ahead of a key International Maritime...
September 23rd, 20190Today marks 100 days until the global sulphur cap kicks in with many in the shipping community still scrabbling to get ready for the single largest regulation to hit the...
September 19th, 20190Amid reports of a number of Asian countries mulling delaying the implementation of the global sulhur cap, due to come into force in just 104 days, a host of leading...
September 18th, 20192The World Shipping Council (WSC), the Washington-based liner shipping lobbying group, will pitch the creation of an International Maritime Research Board (IMRB) at a...
September 17th, 20190Growing state-funded maritime subsidies are wasting taxpayers’ money and need a complete overhaul, a new study from part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
September 6th, 20193The Hindu Business Line, one of India’s premier financial newspapers, is reporting New Delhi is contemplating not imposing the global sulphur cap - due to start in 117...
August 21st, 20190Indonesia’s Ministry of Transportation has reversed its decision to delay the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) low sulphur fuel regulations, and has now...
August 13th, 20190John Fredriksen is taking IMO 2020 fuel considerations into his own hands. The Norwegian tycoon’s dry bulk and tanker companies - Golden Ocean and Frontline - are...
August 1st, 20190Nine leaders of climate crisis-threatened islands in the Pacific have signed the Nadi Bay Declaration, urging for immediate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cuts, with...
July 25th, 20193China's Ministry of Transport has issued a draft plan for measures to deal with the 2020 IMO sulphur cap, five months before the implementation of the...
July 18th, 20190Germany has become the latest nation to accede to the IMO’s treaty for the safe and environmentally-sound recycling of ships - the Hong Kong Convention—yesterday in...
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