IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), during its seventy-third session (22-26 October 2018) agreed that Administrations should encourage ships flying their flag to develop implementation plans, outlining how the ship may prepare in orde…
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Top Headlines of Recent Days Japan is pushing ahead with its largest ever overseas port development, which files in the face of neighbour China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative. Trading house Toyota Tsusho and state-run Japan Bank for International Coop…
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There is a careful optimism regarding a return of more vivid activity in the ships’ demolition market, despite a lacklustre start to the new year. In its latest weekly report, Clarkson Platou Hellas said that “it would appear that the holiday sea…
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If I asked for a show of hands – Anyone who was around in 1895? I can be pretty much assured that I am not going to see any hands in the air. Not really a surprise as the intervening 125 years is bound to thin down the likely respondents. But it was in…
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On Thursday 10 January, the Transport Commission of the European Parliament votes on the European Maritime Single Window proposal of the European Parliament. MEPs have tabled an amendment introducing an EU level access point interface, in addition to t…