January 27th, 20202Following on from a landmark study funded by the German Environment Agency that suggests some blends of the new very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) contain higher black...
January 24th, 20201Scott Reynolds from BLOC-X, a trading software provider for the OTC oil block futures market, assesses the impact of the first 24 days of the global sulphur cap. The...
January 22nd, 20200UK maritime law giant Ince Group has taken on the shipping team from London boutique law firm, Bentleys, Stokes and Lowless. A total of 10 lawyers from the 80-year-old...
January 22nd, 20201International Maritime Organization secretary-general Kitack Lim has hailed the start of the global sulphur cap as a smooth, successful process. From January 1, ships...
January 22nd, 20200The Port of Karachi in Pakistan has become the latest authority to ban discharging washwater from open-loop scrubbers. According to a circular issued by Pakistan's...
January 21st, 20204Shipping will need far greater collaboration, both among existing players as well as with governments and land-based business partners, to work out how it pays for the...
January 16th, 20200European competition laws are holding the continent’s top conglomerates back from becoming global champions, unable to compete with American and Chinese rivals, the...
January 14th, 20203South Korea is taking steps to green its coastline with the introduction of voluntary speed limits and an impending emission control area (ECA). The first part of the...
January 13th, 20202The IMO 2020 regulation has its first global trade scalp with news from south Asia where coastal shipping operations along India’s eastern coast risk grinding to a...
January 10th, 20200Shipping got plenty of insight into its potential zero-carbon future yesterday at an event organised by the UK Chamber of Shipping featuring lobbyists, politicians,...
January 9th, 20202According to Rajesh Unni, the CEO of Synergy Marine Group, the art and the science of the shipmanager is essentially “to manage the unexpected”. If that is the...
December 30th, 20190As 2019 comes to a close, J Mintzmyer, the founder of Value Investor's Edge, is totting up the numbers in a year that has cemented his position as one of shipping’s...
December 20th, 20191Every country in the world views their ports as critical to their ability to trade with other nations. This is especially true of Australia, an island country with no...
December 11th, 20190The Philippines is the latest nation to admit IMO 2020 jitters. The Filipino Shipowners Association (FSA) has warned the domestic shipping sector may not be ready to...
December 11th, 20190Will Hogg from Infospectrum on risk management in the sulphur cap era. IMO 2020 seems to be providing oil majors and refiners with huge opportunity to return to being...
December 10th, 20192Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) planned takeover of compatriot Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea is now in jeopardy with the European...
December 10th, 20190Iceland has enacted a strict sulphur emissions control area (SECA) whereby ships calling at the island from next year will only be allowed to burn 0.1% sulphur content...
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