IMO’s intercessional working group met again last week to look through proposals on how to mandate existing ships to cut CO2 emissions. As usual the lobby groups disagree on progress....

By Javier Blas and Alaric Nightingale (Bloomberg) –Royal Dutch Shell Plc has made $1 billion from trading fuel oil this year, making it one of the standout winners from rules...

The International Maritime Organization appears to be backing away from pressure to introduce ship speed limits as part of its strategy to decarbonize the shipping industry. Instead, it has opted...

The IMO has decided on a goal-setting approach by member states to decarbonise shipping, rather than progress the proposals put forward by some members for a mandatory speed reduction on vessels.   The strategy, decided...

The Pacific's first cyclone early warning system will go live in Fiji this week. The early warning system was developed to give island nations more notice of the likely impact...

Solomon Islands' incoming representative to the United Nations will take to New York many of the causes he fought for when he headed the Parties to the Nauru Agreement. Transform...

A lot of the stuff we buy in the U.S. comes by ship, ships that use a particularly dirty kind of fuel. Now a big shipping company says it wants...

Tokelau's first airstrip will be built on the central atoll of Nukunonu. The New Zealand-funded project will connect air services to Tokelau, which is currently only reachable by boat from...

Widespread damage from four cyclones that pummelled several regions of New Zealand in 2017 and 2018 have so far cost about $100 million in emergency works on key roads. "This...

Keeping climate change in check will require reducing the carbon footprint associated with global shipping, which accounts for the bulk of world trade. With governments and the shipping industry already...

The Dutch company Port-Liner is building two giant all-electric barges dubbed the ‘Tesla ships‘. The company announced that the vessels will be ready by this autumn and will be inaugurated by...

Sri Lanka has ambitions to move up from being a south Asia transhipment hub to a global maritime and logistics centre on a par with Dubai and Singapore. “Geographically, what...