Joint Statement Brussels, 14.09.2016 In June 2013, ETF, IDC, FEPORT and ESPO (1) have established, with the support of the European Commission, the Sectoral Social Dialogue…
The role of the pilot in mitigating the potential economic and environmental risk from today’s large vessels is one of the most important in maritime…
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) notes Finland’s significant announcement that it has acceded to the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention. This suggests that this…
Accession by Finland has triggered the entry into force of a key international measure for environmental protection that aims to stop the spread of potentially…
A milestone was reached in the greening process that took place at the Port of Gothenburg on September 2, 2016. M/T Ternsund bunkered natural gas…
In the following article, Capt Pradeep Chawla, Managing Director, QHSE & Training, Anglo-Eastern Univan Group Company, discusses the role of certificate of competency in safety training.…
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has been given the task by Regulation (EC) No 721/2004 to “draw up on a regular basis a list…
The heavy lift and multipurpose (HL/MPV) shipping sector is under extreme pressure. With desperately low commodity prices laying waste to new capital projects, and increasing…
BCC Research has revealed in its new report that the global shipping industry is scheduled to implement ballast water treatment systems in its entire vessel…
The Swedish Government will investigate the consequences for Swedish industry by the introduction of a nitrogen emission control area, NECA, in the Baltic Sea and…
The new product tanker of the Swedish shipping company Terntank received the first Rotterdam ‘LNG bunkering incentive’, a premium amounting to a discount of ten…
The Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control will launch a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC,2006). The aim of…
