According to recent figures from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), women currently make up just 2% of the global maritime workforce, with the majority of female seafarers employed on...
Damen Shipyards Group signed a cooperation agreement of understanding with Skoon Energy to further accelerate the development of sustainable shipping solutions, and SLPA, China and India are investing over $700m...
In this issue: Emerging ports in Africa, safety concerns around lithium-ion batteries, celebrating the Sailors’ Society, the IMO’s pledge to reduce emissions, the digital technologies helping ports to cut costs,...
In March, the Sailors’ Society celebrated its 200th anniversary. Patrick Kingsland sat down with the society’s CEO, Stuart Rivers, to look back on two centuries of service to seafarers, and...
As an international sector, shipping is often vulnerable to volatile political and economic forces that can threaten vital access points, shift the volume and direction of trade flows, or send...
Grimaldi Group has placed an order valued at more than $400m with Chinese shipyard Jinling for the construction of six ro/ro vessels known as Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5G), and...
In this issue: The potential impact of a US China trade war on shipping, the Mayflower autonomous ship, the development of Nigeria’s shipping sector, Sweden’s efforts to decarbonise maritime transport,...
At the start of March, US President Donald Trump slapped a 25% tariff on steel imports and a 10% levy on aluminium shipments from China. With mounting fears of a...
The IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) has reinforced regulations requiring all ships to install ballast water management systems (BWMS). Dr Stelios Kyriacou, general manager of BALPURE® BWMS at De...
IMO adopted an initial strategy to reduce at least 50% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global shipping sector by 2050, compared to 2008, and Wärtsilä tested its autodocking...
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