Japan’s classification society ClassNK has added the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) to its register.

Liberia’s Maritime Authority, and the Maritime Safety Administration of the Peoples Republic of China (MSA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) together in Beijing.

Despite ten years of steadily improving casualty statistics, a joint study by DNV and Lloyd’s List Intelligence identifies new fuels and digital technologies as new risks that need to be addressed.

Singapore has suspended crew change and vaccination of seafarers with recent travel history to six southern African nations over fears concerning the Omicron variant.

Governments' “knee-jerk” reactions to the Omicron variant are putting supply chains and the workers that enable them at risk, transport leaders have warned.

Shipping organisations expressed disappointment as sounds of the can being kicked further down the road decarbonising the industry still echoed following the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) MEPC meeting last week.

Philip Alexander Embiricos Coumoundouros, a member of one of Greece's leading shipping families and former head of Bimco, passed away earlier this month in Paris aged 78.

Observers are frustrated at the IMO’s decision yesterday to delay a decision on launch of the industry’s $5bn decarbonisation fund, which many in shipping believe is urgently required and for which some major shipowners have pledged their...

The European Maritime Safety Agency’s (EMSA) ongoing issues with Philippines seafarer training standards and the STCW Code have hung over the country’s crewing industry for a decade and half, but the Maritime Industrial Authority (Marina) is...

With crew change set to continue being a challenge in 2022 the vaccination of seafarers and recognition of that vaccinated status are seen as a key issues by senior leaders from across the spectrum of the industry including unions, shipowners, and...