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A Sting Exclusive: “Regulators and the shipping industry collaborating for a sustainable future”, written by the Secretary General of IMO

November 15, 2018 by The Sting's Team Leave a Comment

This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Mr. Kitack Lim, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The opinions expressed in this article belong to our distinguished writer. I am often asked about my vision for the future of the shipping industry, especially at a time of so much change. As a Secretary-General […]

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Why the merchant ships can pollute the atmosphere with CO2 quite freely

December 22, 2014 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last Wednesday the European Union Environment ministers reached an agreement… essentially to not to impose rules or duties on CO2 emissions from ships. Cunningly, the relevant Council Press release said that the 28 ministers “reached an agreement on new EU-wide rules for CO2 emissions from ships”. Until today, ocean-going shipping is the only sector of […]

Filed Under: Business, Environment, Policy, Shipping Tagged With: CO2 emissions, environment, EU Council, ship-owners, shipping

Ship Recycling is the Commission’s Titanic

February 20, 2013 by Leo Buonapartis 1 Comment

It was the symbolic date of 12/12/12 that the international NGO, Center for International Environmental Law, decided to publish a legal opinion denouncing as 100% illegal the European Commission’s proposal for a new regulation on ship recycling. This coincided with the legal analysis by the former chief counsel of the European Commission , Dr. Ludwig […]

Filed Under: Business, Environment, Shipping, Transport Tagged With: Alang China, Basel Convention, European Commission, Exxon Valdez, Hong Kong Convention, International Chamber of Shipping, Maria Damanaki, OECD, ship breaking, ship recycling

“Private” sea freight indexes hide Libor like skeletons?

December 22, 2012 by Elias Lacon 1 Comment

The almost three centuries old Baltic Exchange is a private and closed platform, where around 60 shipping brokers based mainly in London are contributing voluntarily their cargo prices. On the base of those contributions the Exchange publishes benchmark freight price indexes for a round number of 70 sea routes and vessel categories. The indexes are […]