Environment

By Jonathan Saul (Reuters) – Hydrogen is touted as an inevitable green fuel of the future. Tell that to the people who’ll have to ship it across

By Alexandre Minguez (Reuters) A young grey whale lost in the Mediterranean, thousands of miles away from its natural habitat in the Pacific ocean, is

Japan-based classification society ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle to Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the design of a cargo containment system for

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – Cargill, one of the world’s biggest charterers of ships, has cut nearly 1.5 million tonnes of gross

The greening of shipping, as well as other transport modes, is a major theme for the first half of 2021, happily- stealing headlines from 2020’s steady diet

Finnish technology firm Norsepower has completed testing of one of its “Rotor Sails” onboard the Viking Grace. Installed in 2018, the MS Viking

The Biden Administration will push International Maritime Organization Member States to to adopt a goal of achieving “zero emissions” from

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Day two of President Joe Biden’s international climate summit concluded on Friday. Biden pledged during the first

By SM Moshiur Rahman, In support of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 13, IMO set up an initial strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from

By Jennifer Epstein and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden brought the U.S. back into the global fight against climate change on

Norwegian shipping group Wilhelmsen has announced a $500 million investment to accelerate the growth of its maritime services related to renewable energy and

Several of the world’s major shipping organizations are calling on world leaders to urgently examine the role of so-called market-based measures (MBMs)

SINGAPORE, April 21 (Reuters) – The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) announced two initiatives on Wednesday to reduce the

by Nathan Frandino (Reuters) – After years studying the icy waters of the Southern Ocean with floating robotic monitors, a consortium of oceanographers

The United States will push the International Maritime Organization towards net zero emissions by 2050. In 2018, the IMO adopted an initial strategy seeking to

Norwegian exhaust gas scrubber company Yara Marine Technologies is joining forces with British-based BAR Technologies to offer commercial-scale wind-assisted

Ontario, Canada-based Algoma Central Corporation has been fined $500,000 after pleading guilty to dumping wastewater into Lake Ontario, the U.S. Justice

U.S.-based Crowley is expanding its use of low carbon biofuel by using it to power one of its tugboats operating San Francisco Bay. Crowley Shipping and Shell

SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) – BHP Group Ltd said on Thursday it completed its first refuelling of a ship with biofuel this month in a trial run that is

by Rich McKay (Reuters) – Four dead gray whales washed ashore on San Francisco Bay area beaches in nine days, with experts announcing that two of the