The shipping industry has lauded an initial strategy adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to reduce GHG emissions by at least 50% of 2008 levels by 2050, but others were less impressed.

BIMCO has come out with a statement against US-led protectionism and warned about the threat of a damaging trade war as imports tariffs on steel and aluminium announced earlier this month are set to enter into force.

A coalition of shipping industry and environmental organisations have called for ban of the carriage of fuel of higher than 0.5% sulphur content once the cap comes into force at the start of 2020.

Bimco ceo and secretary general Angus Frew sees the environment as the most important item on the agenda for shipping in 2018.

Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre (EMAC) continues to explore opportunities for collaboration, this time in Denmark.

 A perfect storm of retiring baby-boomers and the ongoing global economic downturn, are causing the number of skilled seafarers in the global industry to shrink dramatically, but attendees at Seatrade Offshore Marine & Workboats Middle East ...

Newbuild contracting activity for VLCCs has risen to the highest level since 2008, prompting Bimco to warn of a potential “fundamental imbalance” that would take “years to overcome.”

Four major international shipping and maritime trade associations have made a joint proposal to the IMO on ambitious carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions by the global shipping industry.

With the rapid spread of cybercrime one of the issues in tackling the problem is that many companies do not want to admit having come under attack due to the risk to their reputation. This also makes fighting the menace difficult as the scale of...

Maritime industry leaders at the last day of Sea Asia 2017 today, said that there is still a lot of optimism and opportunity in the industry despite the current market environment, if companies are willing to scale to the right size, focus on...