Opinions & Analysis

The crew change crisis that has developed with the COVID-19 pandemic will need more than just coordination of port and government authorities with shipowners and managers as there is a huge logistics issue of getting seafarers to the points of...

Late yesterday morning (March 18) Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) banned all commercial ships from entering ports in Queensland if the ship, or any person onboard, has been in any country outside of Australia within the last 14-days. Shipping...

The pilot could barely contain his astonishment as he recounted the exchange with the master as he reached the bridge of the ship he had just boarded.

The Paris Agreement was aiming to bring forward a more global inclusive regime debatably, the bottom-up inspiration by Paris Agreement could lead IMO to highlight ‘NDCs of shipping industry’.

The biggest question facing shipping is what fuels will it use in the future to meet planned greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts of 50% of more by 2050.

More than any other sector, transport is under pressure to boost efficiency and cut emissions. In Singapore, the main sources of air pollution are emissions from the industries and motor vehicles .

LNG is basically playing with methane and won’t limit CO2 emissions, open loop scrubbers double the pollution problem with food chain and under water marine life, low-sulphur fuel is limiting sulphur emissions yet wont address black carbon...

Crewing and commercial issues were in focus in a Capital Link webinar on the impact on shipping of the coronavirus (Covid-19).

One wonders, as the size and capacity of cruise ships mushroomed, and the various lines proudly unveiled their latest mammoth vessel, with all its outrageous attractions, whether anyone gave much thought to the prospect of the thousands of souls...

The IPCC special report Global Warming of 1.5c summarised that human activities have estimated caused 0.8 to 1.2 degrees c increase of global temperature and under current pathways most likely to reach 1.5 degrees c increase between 2030 to 2052.