[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Danish Maritime Authority, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Shipowners’ Association are hosting a conference where the future implementation of the Ballast Water Management Convention is on the agenda.Now, the Ballast Water [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]India is poised to dislodge Japan to become the world’s second-largest steelmaker as mills ramp up production to record levels to feed growing demand for infrastructure, new homes and consumer goods, highlighting the potential for [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The phrase “we live in interesting times” is one we now regularly hear. The outcome of UK’s European Union referendum last June has ensured that the next few years will be very “interesting” and UK [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With enough iron ore to construct Paris’s Eiffel Tower nearly 13,000 times over, China’s ports are bursting with stockpiles of the raw material and some of them are demolishing old buildings to create more storage [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The London P&I Club has highlighted a recent increase in the incidence of deck cargoes shifting in heavy weather, and supported a recommendation to appoint a warranty surveyor to supervise high-risk marine construction and transportation [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The International Organisation for Standardisation has launched a new class of marine fuel specifications to provide standards for higher quantities of biofuels to be blended into marine distillates, and making reporting of cloud point mandatory [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) fleet now stands at 223,262,177 deadweight tons (DWT), making it the second largest registry in the world in terms of DWT.International Registries, Inc. and its affiliates (IRI) have [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In spite of the success recorded in the Implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code in Nigeria, the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) issued a bulletin concerning its new ECDIS Data Presentation and Performance Check for ships. IHO says that the checks should be run at least once after installing an ECDIS. A [...]
Security consultant company, Gray Page, announced that a system designed to prevent unlawful over-the-side access to ships, oil rigs and other marine platforms and installations called ‘DFENCE’ is now available to the global maritime market. [...]
