Overview

Record keeping will be key for shipowners to demonstrate compliance or explain non-compliance with the IMO 2020 sulphur cap says North P&I. With the 0.5% sulphur cap for marine fuel now less than five months from coming into force how the...

ShipInsight, 25 July 2019, Paul Gunton

“Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet" has been selected as the World Maritime theme for 2020. This will provide an opportunity to...

Petroleum Economist, Alastair O’Dell, 23 July 2019

Prices of bunker fuels and the spreads between them are expected to change rapidly over the next 12 months.

Oil record book still in top 5 deficiencies

01/07/2019 SAFETY4SEA

The Paris MoU on Port State Control issued its Annual Report 2018, noting that the detention percentage of 3.15% in...

Source: www.lexology.com,Winston & Strawn LLP USA May 31 2019

On May 23, 2019, BIMCO and INTERTANKO released contractual guidance applicable to vessels fitted with scrubbers for...

Barry Parker, Seatrade Marine, 20 June 2019

The official launch of the Poseidon Principles held in New York on expanded how the initiative from major ship finance banks plans to try and take...

Lee Hong Liang, Seatrade Marine, 19 June 2019

Israel’s Oil Refineries Ltd (ORL) has supplied its first cargo of IMO 2020 compliant bunker fuel with sulphur content capped at 0.5%,...

Lee Hong Liang, Seatrade Maritime 18 June 2019

Titan LNG announced that its new LNG bunker barge has completed its first bunkering operation in Rotterdam port, and the Dutch firm is already...

Malcolm Latarche, ShipInsight, 18 June 2019

US-based logistic service provider and SeaTrade subsidiary Hudson Shipping Lines (“Hudson”) has announced as part of its ongoing ‘...

04/06/2019, Source: https://gcaptian.com

In 2016, Princess Cruise Lines agreed to pay a $40 million penalty for illegally dumping oil contaminated waste into the sea and trying to cover it up...

04/06/2019 Source: Transport & Environment

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest luxury cruise operator, emitted nearly 10 times more sulphur oxide (SOX) around European coasts...

20/05/2019, By Jack Wittels and Ann Koh, Bloomberg

• Authorities use new tech to catch sulfur-oxide rule breakers
• Netherlands aims for full compliance with IMO 2020 regulations...

The IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 74) to consider EU proposal to discuss discharges from open loop scrubber

Source: Pollution | 03/05/19

The 2019/20 edition has been fully revised, introducing new graphics, further information on ITOPF’s...

Ayesha Anwar April 26, 2019 Aspergillus tubingensis: a bio-remediation of Plastic2019-04-26T16:13:17+05:00 in Technology Pakistan

Our planet is sinking in plastic. Bio-remediation an environmentally...

Source: International Shipping News 25/04/2019

HullWiper Ltd has signed a hull cleaning frame agreement with Equinor ASA for its fleet of oil and gas tankers operating in Scandinavia, Far East, Middle...

Published date: 26 April 2019
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/1892448-marine-industry-weighs-imo-preparations-cost

Tougher global marine fuel specifications will strain the smallest players...

Source: FreightWaves April 16, 2019 Nick Savvides

The European Commission and European Union (EU) member states, including the United-Kingdom...

Last 16th Euroshore holds its annual General Assembly in Lisbon, during the European Maritime Day. As announced within the previous Newsletter, Euroshore was invited to be part of the panel of a parallel workshop dedicated to ballast water...

A project of controllable pre-swirl stator designs improved fuel efficiency by up to 3.5%. Denmark's largest maritime innovation project has concluded with major emission reductions for shipowners J Lauritzen and Torm and several fuel-saving...

Environmental monitoring organization SkyTruth watches for illegal activity using satellite data, and over the past several years, they've made it clear that "magic pipe" bilge water disposal can no longer be hidden at sea.

Maersk is introducing contractual steps to ensure that its sales contracts include a strong financial incentive for ship recycling to be carried out responsibly.

“The EU list is hard to take seriously. I called one of these “recycling shipyards” a few months ago, and they hadn’t even started building the yard yet,” says Angus Frew, BIMCO Secretary General & CEO. ”...

The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual European meeting point on maritime affairs and blue growth. It targets maritime professionals, entrepreneurs and ocean leaders from Academia, NGOs, businesses, governments and public institutions. It...

ECO-OIL and TRADERE are part of the 24 partner consortium from the Atlantic Area “Blue Port Services”. This interregional cooperation is funded by the European Union and addresses the issue of ships effluents, in particular oiled...

Poised to continuously control plastic pollution on Nigerian waters, African Circle Pollution Management Limited (ACPML) has procured two more patrol boats, making five in its fleets.

As fuels with different sulphur content are in use on board ships, compliance with the limit of the ECAs can be a challenge for the crew. Beside the global 0.50% sulphur cap – entering into force in 2020, and already in force in Chinese...

Where there is a regulation, there must follow an example being made of the rule breakers to get the word out about the regulation. Therefore, I make the sad prediction that more ships will be detained and more crew arrested in 2019....

The level of sulfur in marine fuel, before it passes through an exhaust gas cleaning system, or scrubber, could rise from current levels to 4.2% in 2020, an industry expert said.

On March 21, 2019, Euroshore welcomed a delegation of harbour masters and port environmental experts of PENAF (Ports Environmental Network-Africa) in Brussels. Euroshore highlighted some new challenges in maritime shipping (ship generated waste...

System 001 is our first system and we planned to learn a lot from this new technology. During the four months of deployment, the challenges we faced have brought us a greater understanding of the environment of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and...

At the start of 2019, the top 10 countries of ship owners account for 547 billion USD worth oif ships, a value which has gone up 6% compared to the start of 2018.

Ecoslops signs agreement with Suez Canal Economic Zone to build and operate a un it for collection, reception and treatment of oily residues from maritime origin in Port Saïd (Egypt).

Despite the IMO’s approval for scrubbers as a safe bet for the new sulphur regulations, some local authorities of coastal countries are concerned about the wash water discharged from these scrubbers, reports the Gard.