Topic: SHIPPING

The powerful diesel engine roars as the water taxi cuts through the choppy water that connects Rotterdam’s gritty port areas to what remains of the city’s historic maritime grandeur.

Amidst a pivotal year for the maritime industry, marked by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) revised greenhouse gas emissions strategy, the Poseidon Principles have emerged as a driving force for change.

Shipping will manage to meet the International Maritime
Organization’s goal of net-zero emissions sometime around the mid-century, an industry audience was told in London this morning.

One of the world’s largest flag states has sharply increased its demands over a shipping carbon levy as it faces becoming a registry without a home because of climate catastrophe, a senior official tells TradeWinds.

Decarbonising the shipping industry is a goal of climate talks at Cop28, with leaders meeting to discuss the urgency of cutting emissions.

To deliver on the goal of net zero eimissions for shipping by 2050, IMO greenhouse gas regulations must rest on solid foundations.