A new poll conducted for Pacific Environment found (74%) of American voters would be more likely to shop at companies that use cleaner ways to ship their goods, and 70% of...
Country delegates at the UN agency responsible for global shipping voted on Tuesday to avoid any meaningful intervention in the sector and continue to operate largely outside of any enforceable international law...
Lloyd's anticipates regional regulatory fragmentation, in part through the European Commission/European Parliament efforts to include shipping in the European Union’s carbon market, forcing emissions cuts on ships calling at...
Forecasts for the liner industry estimate $14b in profit this year, marking a massive turnaround from projections in April, following a massive global lockdown to prevent COVID-19 transmission, which estimated...
Utility Kansai Electric Power, energy firm Iwatani, shipbuilder Namura Shipbuilding, the state-owned Development Bank of Japan and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology are partnering on a feasibility study to...
Lloyd’s Register is partnering with rotor sail producer Anemoi Marine Technologies and Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) to develop a series of energy efficient vessel designs equipped with rotor...
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a report urging the IMO to phase out all scrubbers - previously a hotly contested opinion prior to the implementation of sulfur content...
A snapshot of ships both trading today and under construction which do not use bunker fuel has been provided by Clarkson Research Services, showing alternative fuels are now in use...
Up to US$40m in economic loss and damage has been estimated by the Solomon Islands government from the Solomon Trader’s incident running aground in February 2019. The wreck occurred in Kangava Bay off...
The sinking of the MV Rosali offshore of Ambae, Vanuatu serves as another example of the need for improved safety measures aboard vessels in the Pacific. Fortunately, none of the...
Both protestors and representatives from Pacific Island Countries have been vocally demanding international representatives reject the watered down emissions reduction proposal being put forward by the IMO A symbolic fire-burning Viking funerary ceremony outside the IMO’s Headquarters...
As the IMO MEPC meetings take place this week, the U.S. holds one of 10 powerful ‘Category A’ seats on the IMO’s Executive Council The incoming Biden/Harris administration's climate...
