Italian classification society, RINA has opened a Fleet Operating Centre (FOC) in newly expanded offices in Piraeus as it further strengthens its presence in Greece.

Shanghai-headquartered ContiOcean Group has been awarded the first ship cyber security system solution Approval-in-Principle (AIP) certificate in Asia by Lloyd’s Register (LR).

International Maritime Organization (IMO) secretary general Kitack Lim has called on everyone in the maritime and shipping industry to work together for a “sustainable post-pandemic recovery and truly sustainable future”.

Singapore’s port authority and China’s Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support talent and academic exchange between the two countries in the maritime sector.

France-based BIO-UV Group reports that its ballast water treatment system BIO-SEA has successfully passed all land and shipboard testing and is now IMO G8 approved without any operational restrictions.

Sperry Marine has signed an agreement with DNV GL enabling vessels to securely share navigational data with the classification society.

The Cyprus maritime community yesterday hosted a virtual debate on the thorny issue of shipping’s possible inclusion in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), as proposed recently by the European Parliament.

Infographic from Information Fusion Centre (IFC) summarising sea robberies and attempted incidents in the eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait from July to November this year.

Shipowners are urged to take a more holistic approach on maritime safety and to look at how to ‘normalise’ the safety culture, according to a panel discussion at the International Safety@Sea 2020 Webinar this week.

A Singapore-based taskforce has developed a CrewSafe audit programme based on Singapore’s crew change model, to establish safe and scalable ‘corridors’ for crew change amidst the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.