Cap-and-trade schemes 'best' to cut emissions A global trading scheme is the most effective means of cutting carbon emissions in the shipping sector, five shipping industry associations said in a study on Wednesday.
Ecospec gets $2m to test its pollutant reducer Homegrown research and technology company Ecospec Global Technology has just received co-funding of $2 million from the Maritime and Port Authority's Maritime Innovation and Technology (Mint) fund to test-bed and seek type-approval for its CSNOx system, which reduces greenhouse gas and exhaust pollutants from ship emissions.
Euro 3 trucks will soon pay higher tolls in Austria Road use tolls for lorries in Austria will reflect ecological considerations from January 2010. EEVs (enhanced environment-friendly vehicles) and Euro 6 class trucks (probably avai...
Trond Westlie new Møller-Mærsk group CFO Trond Westlie will be A.P. Møller-Mærsk's new group CFO and a member of the group's executive board from 1 January 2010. Westlie was previously executive vice-president and CFO of ...
New ICS web site on shipping and CO2 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the principal global trade association for shipowners, has launched a new website designed to explain what the shipping industry and it...
Piracy expected to rise as monsoon ends Operators of vessels off the east coast of Africa are being warned by a leading insurance expert to prepare for an increase in pirate attacks after the southwestern monsoon ends in...
BLG provides Volkswagen with logistics services in St Petersburg BLG is developing new logistics pathways for Volkswagen in the East. The first vehicles were loaded by the 3rd Stevedoring company in St Petersburg recently. The 3rd Stevedoring co...
"Elbrus" launches scheduled Dunkirk-Oceania service Swire Shipping suspended its direct WRTW/Bank Line service, which operated between Northern Europe and the South Pacific for many years, in June. Two months after this suspension, ...
Italy and Spain partners in a motorway of the sea scheme Italy and Spain recently held a meeting in La Maddalena (Italy) during which the ministers of transport Altero Matteoli and Jos' Blanco signed an agreement for developing a mo...
Zim gains orderbook delays ISRAEL'S Zim Integrated Shipping has reached agreement with two South Korea shipyards to delay its post-Panamax box ship orderbook
Ruling might split Copenhagen A COURT ruling has chipped away at confidence that the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will agree on unified measures for shipping, IHS Global Insight reported today
Sulphur death toll: 60,000 SULPHUR'S after-effects kill 60,000 people a year who live in coastal regions, a shipping scientist told an IMO event today
Mozambique-Vietnam gas plan VIETNAM'S national oil and gas group PetroVietnam reportedly plans to invest about $85M in a gas project in Mozambique
Poland to privatise repair yards POLAND has said it will privatise three ship repair yards employing more than 3,000 people
Daewoo Mangalia cutting jobs ROMANIA's Daewoo Mangalia HI yard plans to cut its workforce by almost 300 people before the end of the year
Lake capsizing survivors sought RUSSIAN rescuers are searching today despite stormy weather for seven people missing in a lake vessel's capsizing
16 nations sign the Rotterdam Rules On Wednesday, an open ceremony was held for the signing of the new UN convention, the so-called Rotterdam Rules. 15 nations signed the convention during the ceremony while France
Seventh P-MAX tanker delivered Concordia Maritime has taken delivery of the product tanker Stena Progress from Brodosplit Shipyard, Croatia. The vessel is the seventh in the P-MAX series of ten units ordered and
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