Updated 11 Oct 2019
IMO pollution regulation
In modern times the shipping industry has been unfairly singled out as a major source of global pollution. It is often said…
Updated 11 Oct 2019
NOx emissions
Timeline: MARPOL Annex VI (NOx related) 26 Sept 1997 – Annex VI formally adopted;1 Jan 2000 – Engine-makers begin building and…
Updated 11 Oct 2019
SOx emissions
Timeline: MARPOL Annex VI (SOx related) 26 Sept 1997 – Annex VI formally adopted;19 May 2005 – Annex VI enters into force…
Updated 11 Oct 2019
Oil pollution overview
With the possible exception of the polluting potential of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic and a movement to ban its use as a fuel…
Updated 11 Oct 2019
Types of waste water
Ships make use of a great deal of water some of which is taken from the sea and returned untreated and some of which needs to…
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Garbage
Regulating waste material Disposal of waste from ships was once merely a matter of throwing over the side everything that was…
Updated 11 Oct 2019
Fuel-saving technology
There is an unfair depiction of the shipping industry as a profligate user of fuel causing unnecessary emissions and…
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Emission trading could hurt EU more than shipowners
For many years the EU has sought to dictate the pace of environmental regulation of shipping and despite initiatives such as…
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Shipping needs certainty
If there is anything that shipping has always needed but rarely had it’s a great degree of certainty over what the future may…
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Could constant criticism end the environmental cause?
Shipping it seems can do nothing right. Just days after the attack on new ‘Frankenstein fuels’ – or 2020 compliant fuels as the…
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Who pays the piper?
ShipInsight recently carried a news item titled Shipping facing Trillion dollar bill for 2050 plans which laid out some of the…
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Finding the real heat in the decarbonisation debate
I went to a conference earlier this month (9 January) about decarbonising shipping and ports, organised jointly by the UK…
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Talking the talk but not walking the walk
Two reported decisions by two European governments are being seen by environmental campaigners as sending the wrong signals…
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Good ideas will win through - eventually
It is never easy for anyone with a new idea to make a breakthrough into any market and perhaps for an outsider breaking into…
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Ten years on and little change
A little bit of crystal ball gazing is usual at this time of year but sometimes it can be equally enlightening to look back at…
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