Satcomms provider Marlink and Classification Society Bureau Veritas signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fast track data collection and cooperate on digital adoption.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) marked its one hundredth anniversary on 20 June with an impressive dinner at London’s National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Russian state-backed Sovcomflot’s fleet is fully insured for internation trade, its CEO said last week.

Classification Society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has acquired voyage optimisation and compliance company OneOcean from its private equity owners.

London-based Greek shipowners have expressed their frustration at what they say is the lack of action on the part of governments, charterers and shipbuilders over the past 12 months when it comes to dealing with the challenges facing the shipping...

Norwegian cleantech company TECO 2030 has introduced a hydrogen-powered tanker concept, Hy-Ekotank, together with its partners Ektank AB, Shell Shipping and Maritime, and DNV.

Bureau Veritas (BV) has released new structural rules for steel ships, using new tools and technologies to replace rules published in 2000.

Greece appears to have backed down over the seizure of a tanker off its shores bearing Iranian crude on US instructions earlier this year, after a local court ordered the release of the detained vessel, Iranian news reports said.

Twelve of the 25 signatories to the Sea Cargo Charter succeeded in matching International Maritime Organization decarbonisation targets for their sector in 2021.

COVID-19’s destabilising effect on maritime supply chains brought a “spiral of reactions” that particularly affected small island developing States (SIDS) and led to global container blacklogs, according to an UNCTAD report.