May 27th, 20203Greg Atkinson has been in dialogue with the IMO and the backers of the Poseidon Principles among others as he tries to fathom out what decarbonisation actually means...
May 19th, 20203Pradeep Chawla from Anglo-Eastern urges governments to get a move on resolving the crew change issue. Covid-19 has caused unmeasurable suffering to people all around...
May 8th, 20200From the start of September, South Korea will demand vessels berthing and anchoring at its major ports such as Incheon, Yeosu, Busan and Ulsan, to burn bunker fuel with...
May 8th, 20204Covid-19 came from the oceans and specifically the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) decision to enforce ballast water and sulphur regulations, argues a...
May 6th, 20200Julian Clark, the former head of global shipping at Hill Dickinson, has taken up a new role in London as senior partner at rival law firm, Ince. Clark will take...
April 30th, 202015The International Transport Forum (ITF), which works under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, is set to lock...
April 27th, 20200The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has reported two vessel detentions for using non-compliant fuel in the first quarter to ensure the implementation of...
April 27th, 20201Adrian Tolson, a director at BLUE Insight, sets the scene for a webinar he’s hosting on Wednesday. Remember the good old days when we thought IMO 2020 would be...
April 22nd, 20200Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has become the latest shipowner to sign up to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), a voluntary initiative in which companies and...
April 9th, 20201China and Brazil have submitted a paper to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in support of applying mandatory efficiency rules to all the world's existing...
April 3rd, 20201The new Dry Bulk Management Standard (DBMS) to support the improvement of safety and risk management standards within dry bulk shipmanagement was officially launched...
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...
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