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As the world watched the Ever Given salvage over the last week, the heads of five UN organizations joined together in a call for maritime and air transport

International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Kitack Lim has issued his first comments on the grounding of the MV Ever Given in the Suez Canal. The

Support is growing for a proposed $5 billion research fund to help decarbonize shipping. The World Shipping Council, one of the proposal’s original

Shipping trade groups representing the vast majority of the global shipping industry are throwing their support behind a “moon-shot” proposal by

A handful of major maritime industry stakeholders including Maersk and Keppel have teamed up to study and possibly develop a green ammonia ship-to-ship

By Barry Parker (gCaptain) – The International Maritime Organization is expected to codify a transitional (i.e. 2030) energy efficiency pathway for

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA International) have launched an

Decarbonization is indeed “a thing”, as Millennials might say. The problem that I have writing on the topic- and presumably that readers have, is that the

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will convene a maritime security working group in response to the growing number of pirate attacks on ships in

The United Nations General Assembly has called on UN Member States to designate seafarers and other maritime personnel as key workers and implement measures to

By Jack Wittels and Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — The organization responsible for setting global environmental standards for shipping approved rules

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) – The United Nations shipping agency on Tuesday approved measures to boost energy efficiency in vessels as part

The global shipping industry is urgently calling on governments to move forward on a proposal for a $5 billion industry-financed research and development

by John Konrad (gCaptain) The London Headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), was besieged again by Ocean Rebellion protestors on

By Barry Parker – Repatriation of seafarers has been one of the most vexing issues facing the maritime industry throughout 2020, as Covid-19 has ravaged

By Barry Parker – Over the past year, “sustainability” has ratcheted upward to the top of the shipping industry’s radar. The activity will be

By Aziz El Yaakoubi (Reuters) – A United Nations team will have to wait several weeks to access a deteriorating FSO tanker off Yemen’s shore that is

For the past day and a half, visitors to the official International Maritime Organization website, www.IMO.org, have been greeted with the message “This

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – U.N. shipping agency the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said on Thursday its website and intranet had been disabled

SINGAPORE, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Commodities trader Trafigura on Friday proposed a carbon levy of $250-$300 per tonne of carbon-dioxide (CO2) equivalent on