Guy Platten

Emanuele Grimaldi (left) and Esben Poulsson

Grimaldi succeeds Poulsson as ICS chairman

The board of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, yesterday appointed Emanuele Grimaldi, president and managing director of Grimaldi Euromed SpA, as its chairman. Grimaldi,

IMO’s MEPC 77 avoids the tough stuff

Last week’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC 77) once again demonstrated that the IMO is too often a place where dreams go to die and