With over 194 states (representing 97% of global greenhouse gas emissions) having ratified or acceded to the Paris Agreement and an ever increasing number of countries and entities making net zero their 2050 target, anyone not preparing for significant…
Do carbon credits have a place in shipping’s future? Read More »
Proposals for global tax reform have the potential to undermine the tax policies applied to shipping. • The OECD, with increasing support from the G7, plans radical reform of taxation of large multi-national companies; • The introduction of a “global m…
A Global Minimum Tax Rate – How Special is Shipping (and Does Anyone Care)? Read More »
The new era which we are all currently living in, entails digitization, computer coding, digital information, while new technological infrastructures are taking their place as the new leading mechanisms around the world. We are witnessing great efforts…
Blockchain and Shipping: Can it work? Read More »
Later this year, the Yara Birkeland – the first autonomous container vessel – is due to commence commercial operation in Norwegian waters. For the owners, Yara, and the ship management company, Massterly, the terms of their ship management agreement wi…
AUTOSHIPMAN: Considerations For A New Standard Form Agreement Read More »
In the case of A v. B [2021] EWHC 793 (Comm), the seller under a sale contract jumped the gun and found themselves in breach when they purported to terminate the contract prematurely on the ground that they (mistakenly) considered the buyer was in repu…