Environmental

One of the largest ballast water treatment system (BWTS) manufacturers Panasia has had type approval of its systems cancelled by the Korean courts.

In June the shipping world will in it sixth month of grappling with new environmental regulations and Posidonia 2020 shipping exhibition will be the ideal place to assess the impact low sulphur regulations implementation have had.

Damen has developed a certified deckhouse for its plug and play Ballast Water Treatment Ex (BWT Ex) so the deck-based system can withstand the slamming of waves.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has arrested a Yang Ming boxship on Sunday over a pollution incident in 2018, as the authority demands the shipowner to pay a pollution debt of up to AUD20m ($13.4m).

The western Indian state of Maharashtra is all set to get a mega container port, to be constructed at a cost of INR655.45bn ($9.2bn) at Vadhavan, around 160 km north-west of Mumbai – provided it crosses hurdles created for it in the courts by...

Top shipping banker Michael Parker says shipowners need to look at the “bigger picture” of the industry or face being marginalized.

The IPCC special report Global Warming of 1.5c summarised that human activities have estimated caused 0.8 to 1.2 degrees c increase of global temperature and under current pathways most likely to reach 1.5 degrees c increase between 2030 to 2052.