In NKD Maritime Limited v. Bart Maritime (No 2) Inc (Shagang Giant) [2022] EWHC 1615 (Comm), Bart Maritime (No 2) Inc (the seller) was contracted to sell the VLOC Shagang Giant to NKD Maritime Limited (the buyer) by way of a Memorandum of Agreement (MO…
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SEEMP Part III represents the International Maritime Organization’s decarbonisation ambitions. The regulation requires ships of at least 5,000 GT and which trade internationally, except passenger ships, to have a verified Ship Energy Efficiency M…
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The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) attempts at curbing the emissions of Shipping have been in the headlines for nearly a decade. Their flagship policy, EEDI (Energy Efficiency Design Index), has laid the way for a host of acronymic additio…
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In the past months, a wide range of developments have been carried out in the world of regulatory affairs within logistics. These essential proposals have a key role to play in ensuring that the logistics industry continues to make progress and improve…
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MARPOL Annex VI regulations were written for petroleum derived fuels but also apply to biofuels. It has been a challenge to meet the regulatory requirement to demonstrate that biofuels do not “cause an engine to exceed the applicable NOx emission limit…
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