Dry bulk cargo owner Tata Steel says fuel suppliers must work with cargo owners more than shipowners for decarbonisation to work

Companies backing nuclear shipping defended the technology’s safety record and asked the International Maritime Organization for a level playing field with other future fuels

Decision will reignite arguments, admits barrister for appellants

The Red Sea crisis is the main worry at this week’s Maritime Safety Committee, but the forum’s powers to change it are few. States raised worries the MSC is overstretched, with work piling up on autonomous ships, green fuel safety and other matters

The Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association wants legal ambiguities in the FuelEU Maritime regulation resolved, warning of uncertainty and contractual risks for shipowners, operators and charterers

The Australian government planned to ban live sheep exports by sea in 2022. Debate has raged for years between animal rights groups and farmers about animal welfare, while livestock carriers have a chequered safety record

Watch out for changes to stipulations, including increase of 80% target to net zero, as well as global implementation of similar scheme through the IMO

The Palau registry is defending the actions it took in the Middle East Marine LLC seafarer abandonment cases. The Dubai tug operator was accused last week by the ITF of perpetrating the ‘worst case of serial seafarer abandonment ever seen’, while Palau was called out by the union for being unresponsive

If convicted, Yan may face a long prison sentence. His former superior at SIPG, Chen Xuyuan, was sentenced to life in prison by another Chinese court in March

Australia says complaints about breaches of the Maritime Labour Convention fell in 2023, which suggested seafarers trusted its regulator to take their welfare seriously. But abuses by employers continued to come to light

India-flagged bulk carrier banned from Australia for 180 days after inspectors at Melbourne found a litany of deficiencies, including defective main engine control and monitoring systems

After seven years at the helm Guy Platten has announced it is time to step aside and let someone else lead the global trade association for shipowners

Two ship engineers face potential jail time in the US for violating pollution laws. The US says the two admitted oil was illegally dumped from their vessel when it was in New Jersey in 2022, and they instructed crew to cover up the act

Researchers in Sweden estimated the cost of marine ecotoxicity damage from the discharge of scrubber water in the Baltic Sea from 2014-2022 was more than €680m, while shipowners quickly recouped the cost of installing scrubbers

Next year’s P&I general increases expected in line with inflation, but Dali incident could have lasting impact on reinsurance levy

Amid an alarming rise in seafarer abandonment cases, the ITF is accusing Dubai tug operator Middle East Marine of ‘systemic abuse and neglect’, with 17 abandonments reported since November 2022