New buses added to Auckland's commuter fleet are likely to be electric from now on. Auckland Transport hoped up to 30 electric buses each year will join the city's fleet to soak up...
Samoa tourism is trying to entice Samoans in Australia and New Zealand to visit home to boost its beleaguered tourism industry sector. The country's biggest industry is forecasting a 20...
Our shipping cost, per tonne/nauticle mile, is the highest in the world and serves as a primary barrier to progress across the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Goals. Pacific population are...
When the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) five years ago, the world aligned around the need to end illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by 2020 (SDG...
The IMO’s 7th Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships, which takes place in a few weeks, includes a paper from the European Commission discussing whether maritime...
Reducing ship speeds by 10-15% could effectively reduce maritime emissions by around 20-30% and help meet the International Maritime Organization’s target of halving emissions by 2050, maritime specialist Pierre Cariou...
From the platform it looked like any other British commuter train. But as several hundred passengers climbed on board the steel-bodied carriages at Long Marston, they were met with an...
In this past week's Shipping News, USP Maritime Law Specialist, Prof. Pierre-Jean Bordahandy, lays out the pivotal role of Pacific Island Countries in furthering the decarbonization agenda at the International...
Green hydrogen production, initially in the Eemshaven and later possibly also offshore, is expected to be around 800,000 tonnes per year by 2040, which could avoid about seven megatonnes or...
A paper has been submitted to the International Maritime Organization to try and push interest in wind-powered technologies for shipping. It has been submitted by the Comoros Islands, one of...
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's maritime emissions rapporteur is hardly shy about her convictions. When a group of protesters stood in front outside the European Parliament in Brussels on February 19 demanding...
