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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Where are we now on the GHG path?
In the present almost surreal economic environment, shipping is struggling to adapt to what may well become a very different…
Malcolm Latarche
I am not captivated by carbon capture
I confess that I am a bit late bringing you news that a small UK company has been awarded government funding to explore the…
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2020 shows globalisation as less than a perfect vision
Shipping is an industry that exists purely to service world trade except perhaps in a few niche areas such as cruising,…
Malcolm Latarche
Is shipping’s pioneering spirit dying?
A recurring theme at last week’s ShipInsight Conference expressed by speakers and audience alike was that the pioneering spirit…
Malcolm Latarche
Black, Red and Green – what are the right choices?
However much individuals believe otherwise, there is a constant battle in which economics and environment appear to be pitched…
Malcolm Latarche
Environmentalism and Economics
Pictures of environmental activists vandalising the lawns of a Cambridge University college would seem to have little to do…
Malcolm Latarche
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…
Malcolm Latarche
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…
Malcolm Latarche
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…
Malcolm Latarche
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