Member states’ ambassadors yesterday gave the presidency a mandate to negotiate with the European Parliament an amendment to rules on the assessment of ship inspection organisations, with the aim of ensuring legal certainty and securing business …
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With the end of 2018 arrive new important deadlines for the shipping activity. During this present year ship owners had the obligation of monitoring data from vessel’s activity, being the most important the monitoring fuel consumed and the tonnes of CO…
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The global maritime industry is cautiously optimistic about the global business environment for world trade, but also concerned about the potential impact of trade tensions, cyber security, fuel costs and other headwinds to industry recovery, according…
BIMCO has developed two 2020 bunker clauses that deal with general compliance and the transitional period for an early December release. The Global Marine Fuel Sulphur Clause for Time Charter Parties was approved by the Documentary Committee at its mee…
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The industry is anxious about ships potentially being penalised if, despite their best efforts, ships are unable to be fully compliant with the 0.50% sulphur limit. Naturally, the industry wants reassurance that port State control (PSC) authorities wil…
IMO won’t call for pragmatic enforcement during initial phase of 2020 Read More »