UNCTAD’s Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation on 21–23 November comes just a few months after the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted an initial strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) e…
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Sulphur Cap Series: Part 2 – Challenges Facing Compliance and Challenges to Enforcement Part 1 explored the scope of Regulation 14.1.3 of Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention (“Regulation 14.1.3”) and provided an analysis of the contractual, penal a…
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The issue If no drastic action is taken, CO2 emissions from international shipping could increase between 50% and 250% by 2050 Maritime transport emitted 938 tonnes of CO2 in 2012. This represented 2.6% of total global carbon emissions. By 2050, shippi…
On Course Towards Carbon-neutral Shipping? Read More »
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…
The 2019 MRV Requests Read More »
The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee’s 73rd session (MEPC73) has just ended, and with it, so did all speculations about a potential delay of the global 0.50% sulphur cap. The rules apply from 1 January 2020 – and they will be enforced….
Sulphur cap ahead! Read More »