
BIMCO: Panama Canal tonnage figures fall
While Donald Trump’s talk of taking back the Panama Canal has been keeping Secretary of State Marco Rubio busy, tonnage through the waterway has recently been falling, says BIMCO. “Between September 2024
While Donald Trump’s talk of taking back the Panama Canal has been keeping Secretary of State Marco Rubio busy, tonnage through the waterway has recently been falling, says BIMCO. “Between September 2024
We’re supposed to be weaning ourselves off oil, right? So why has tanker newbuild contracting been soaring? BIMCO shipping analyst Filipe Gouveia has some answers. “In the first two months of 2024,
BIMCO has established a subcommittee to work on WINDSEACON, a global standard contract for the transport and installation of offshore wind turbines. The project has been launched to support the offshore wind
The world’s largest shipping association, Copenhagen-headquartered BIMCO, has appointed its director of contracts & support, Stinne Taiger Ivø, as deputy secretary general, effective January 1, 2024. She succeeds Søren Larsen, who will
At its general meeting in Hong Kong today, BIMCO, the world’s largest shipping association, elected Nikolaus H. Schües, CEO and owner of Reederei F. Laeisz, as its president. Moving into the role
Some of the biggest charterers of ships, most of whom also own ships, have sharply criticized BIMCO’s Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) operations clause. BIMCO’s standardized charters and clauses are one of the
On August 9, the Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister announced that 71 coal mining companies failed to meet their domestic market obligations, and that 48 of them are now banned from
At one time, oil tankers were the mainstay of world shipbuilding, at least in tonnage terms. Now, though, BIMCO reports that in the first six months of this year only 1.6 million
Niels Rasmussen, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO, is warning that the negative impacts of Russia’s actions in Ukraine will have consequences for all sectors of shipping. Though much uncertainty remains, the immediate
In the wake of COP26, the pressure is on for the International Maritime Organization to up its greenhouse gas reduction ambitions even further. Meantime, from January 1, 2023, IMO’s current revised initial