While IMO has announced an enhanced common ambition to reach net-zero GHG emissions from international shipping by “close to 2050,” some influential cargo shippers don’t want to wait that long. They’re set
This week’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC 80) saw member states adopt the 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships. The strategy fell
As the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee started a crucial session on GHG reduction targets (MEPC 80), United Nations Secretary Secretary-General António Guterres called for meaningful action and said measures
IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee will hold its 80th session (MEPC 80) in London, July 3-7, 2023. Among key agenda items, MEPC 80 is expected to adopt an upgraded IMO greenhouse gas
With a continuing world shortage of seafarers, promoting gender diversity and equality in the maritime industry is receiving increasing attention, not least at the International Maritime Organization, which today, May 18, is
By Dylan Keil, CEO Bearing The new year brought new goals for the world’s shipping fleet: Starting in 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) required every vessel to receive a Carbon Intensity
Amendments to the SOLAS Convention will mandate application of the International Code of Safety for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel from July 1, 2024, writes Joseph Gardemal, ABS Manager, Regulatory Affairs Expansion of
By Luke de Freitas, Head of Silverstream’s Retrofit Delivery Unit Retrofitting verified clean technologies is an imperative to ensure continuity of service for the enormous global internationally-trading fleet. The existing commercial fleet cannot
While the UN’s International Maritime Organization continues to dither on shipping’s proposals to fund maritime decarbonization using some sort of levy on carbon, the European Union is taking a very different approach
Jason Berman, Chief Commercial Officer at S5 Agency World shares five predictions the shipping industry should expect for sustainable shipping in 2023. Change is a constant in the shipping industry, and this