Next week the first part of an IMO scoping study should be completed. It is to determine which safety regulations preclude or exclude the development
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The EU Social Partners in the maritime sector, ECSA and ETF, welcome the adoption by the Members of the European Parliament of the proposal for a Reg
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Norwegian businesses want the country to emulate its successful NOx fund when it comes to industrial decarbonisation, particularly in the offshore and
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NEW environmental rules in Norway come into force on March 1st. They apply to vessels, mostly cruise ships, sailing into the country’s five protected
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New proposals are emerging to create new emission control areas for sulphur emissions, while the number of ports and local waters refusing to let vess
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Europe needs to work harder on its single window for ship reporting if the benefits of digital communication can be realised in shipping. In a mess
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Press Release: LONDON, 26 September 2018: SEA\LNG, the multi-sector industry coalition aiming to accelerate the widespread adoption of liquefied natur
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IMO Announcement: The 1 January 2020 implementation date was confirmed by IMO in October 2016, giving certainty to refineries, bunkering and shipping
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A fresh row has broken out over the European ship recycling regulation which comes into force at the end of this year. European shipowners say ther
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The IMO has begin the scoping exercise to determine how regulations may need to be adapted to allow for autonomous, unmanned ships. The headline write
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Is the economic model that sustained the shipping industry dying? and if so, is a new one based around the ocean economy emerging in its place? And ye
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The United Nations special envoy for the Ocean has called on shipping to decarbonise totally by the end of the century. Speaking at the Nor-Shipping
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THERE are as many as 132 classification societies in the shipping industry according to Robert Ashdown, secretary general of IACS as the body announce
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OUTOKUMPU is a Finnish steel maker that, like many European heavy industries, are duty bound to abide by a number of growing environmental rules and s
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NORWAY has over 1,000 fjord, giving it one of the longest coastlines in the world despite its relative size. As a result the country’s road infrastru
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PRESS RELEASE: Concordia Maritime has joined World Ocean Council (WOC) – a global organisation consisting of shipping-related industries and stakehold
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The IMO is on its way to ban ships from carrying fuel oil onboard that they cannot legally use. The move has been welcomed by lobby groups and shipown
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A growing number of countries have signed a declaration in Paris this week that pushes them to make sweeping commitments to tacking sipping's carbon f
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