As ballast water management regulations shift towards enforcement shipowners are finding that the majority of ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) installed do not function properly.

Paolo d’Amico, md of d'Amico Societá di Navigazione SpA, has been elected new chairman of Intertanko (the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners), succeeding Dr Nikolas Tsakos who completed four years in the role.

The arrival of the global sulphur limit in 2020 will pose multiple challenges to ship operators, Lloyd’s Register principal consultant on fuels Tim Wilson told a Maritime Future Leaders seminar organised by Dubai Maritime Cluster Office, held at...

Scorpio Bulkers has described industry organisations and some large flag states “apologists” for small undercapitalized shipowners as they seek an experience building phase for the 2020 0.5% global sulphur cap.

With the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting the week of the 9th of July to discuss the implementation the low sulphur regulation for ships from 1 January 2020, Panama in conjunction with the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)...

The Posidonia 2018 conference and seminar programme have a truly international flavour being organised by companies and organisations from around the world from Brazil to France, Norway, Panama to Poland, from Mexico to Korea and Japan and from...

A coalition of shipping industry and environmental organisations have called for ban of the carriage of fuel of higher than 0.5% sulphur content once the cap comes into force at the start of 2020.