Opinions & Analysis

The new green recycling facility proposed for Saldanha Bay in South Africa may give owners another option sometime in the future, but for the moment, recycling end-of life ships in today’s multi-tier market is a major headache for ship operators.

Shipping can throw some pretty difficult scenarios at the people who work in it, ever more so a year that has a global pandemic, and the virtual version of the US annual Association of Ship Brokers and Agents (ASBA) conference, role played...

It’s 2020 and everything has gone online, including ship naming ceremonies, and yesterday for the first time I attended one virtually for the LNG bunker tanker FueLNG Bellina. So, what was it actually like?

In a recent editorial headed ‘The slow death of Big Oil has now begun’, the Financial Times described how BP’s chief executive, Bernard Looney, wants the company to cut production of oil and gas by 40% over the next decade.

When did you last have a day off, enjoy a free weekend or the extra bonus of a public holiday? In the case of most of us, it wouldn’t be so far back that we could barely remember it.

Industrial action on the waterfront is causing increasing disruption to the movement of ships and the movement of vital goods upon which Australian families rely.

The future of fuels for shipping, as the industry looks towards 2050, is teeming with possibilities. One influential consortium which has sought to guide the industries moves away from oil-based fuels towards a carbon free future is SEA\LNG.