imo 2020

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Carriers are failing to tackle greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sufficiently invest in the new technologies required to

By Jonathan Saul, Lisa Baertlein and Martinne Geller LONDON/LOS ANGELES, June 25 (Reuters) – U.S. furniture company RC Willey Home Furnishings is so

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The path to complying with the IMO’s 0.5% sulphur cap regulations on bunker fuel in six months’ time will be

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) – A group of leading banks will for the first time include efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions in their

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bunker market is far from ready for the substantial switch in demand to low-sulphur fuel, when the IMO’s 0.5% cap

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, June 10 (Reuters) – Global prices for diesel and marine fuels should rise by October ahead of a January switchover to new, very

By Victoria Klesty OSLO, June 5 (Reuters) – Chevron plans to bring an IMO-compliant 0.5% sulphur shipping fuel blend to the market by the end of the

By Stephen Cunningham (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Coast Guard expects ships to start switching over to cleaner burning fuels as soon as the fourth quarter to

By Serene Cheong and Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) — The global push for cleaner-burning ship fuel is threatening to drive the value of Middle East

By Ahmad Ghaddar AMSTERDAM, May 23 (Reuters) – Shipowners, who are facing one of the biggest changes in the oil industry in decades, are seeing more

By Jack Wittels and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Teams of drones are about to start policing the skies of some of the world’s busiest shipping ports. Their

The Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) has fined a Greek shipowner nearly $80,000 for violating a new law limiting the sulphur content of fuel used by ships

By Nina Chestney LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) – The International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Friday agreed stricter energy efficiency targets for certain

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, May 16 (Reuters) – The marine industry’s January 2020 shift to using very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) to power ships

By Serene Cheong and Alfred Cang (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest offshore oil supermarket is stocking up for anti-pollution rules that

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — Demand for the shipping industry’s main fuel is widely expected to collapse like never before in 2020, so it might come

Authorities in Denmark have deployed a large sulphur-sniffing drone to literally sniff out ships breaking EU rules governing the sulphur content of marine

By Stephen Cunningham (Bloomberg) — U.S. oil refiners, in line for a windfall from new ship-fuel rules, are taking steps to lock in the change quickly,

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Prices for Australian heavy-sweet crude grades are rising as traders snap up cargoes for blending ahead of new

By Bill Lehane (Bloomberg) — Global oil demand is about to get a boost from a rule that’s supposed to help the environment. The world’s refineries