Opinions & Analysis

Sustainability in shipping is about much more than just emissions and alternative fuel and industry needs to take a much broader approach say leading shipowning and chartering executives.

Watch the interview with Vince Solarino, chief operating officer of Shipowners Claims Bureau Inc, management company of the New York-based American P&I Club.

Shipowners and operators are urged to immediately execute their respective Ship Implementation Plan (SIP) to prepare for the 2020 fuel sulphur regulation which is less than four months away.

To tackle the growing problem of containership fires lines need to better know who the shipper is and strong processes in place to spot mis-declared cargoes say P&I insurers Standard Club.

It was in the early 1970s, when the shipping industry was going through one of its regular manning crises, that a Norwegian ship owner came up with an ingenious solution. It was a long time ago, but I recall that the idea was to replicate a small ...

The Ballast Water Management Convention comes into force for existing vessels from 8 September and mutual insurer North P&I Club warns of potential problems with retrofitted treatment systems that could lead to disputes.

The recently renamed tanker Adrian Darya 1 (previously Grace 1), now Iranian-flagged, has been closely followed by the pundits on all things geopolitical, as well as AIS enthusiasts since its mid-August release from Gibraltar, where it had been...

The threat remains “highly likely” of more attacks by Iran on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz according to the world’s largest war risk insurer, the Norwegian Shipowners’ Mutual War Risks Insurance Association (DNK).

Given the pace at which technological advancements are changing the efficiency of operations and trade flows, many ports have embarked on a digital strategy, but true disruption has yet to come for most ports in the developing world.

The bold/audacious/humongous or simply bodacious Trump “infrastructure” plan, estimated to be anywhere from $1.5trn to $2trn, seems not to be happening, but small victories are being seen in the ports sector.