Clarkson Research Services’ Martin Stopford tells forum that decarbonisation in shipping needs to first start with distributing information about the carbon footprint in the 60,000-vessel commercial fleet

Trafigura and Goodbulk are open to paying a premium on hydrocarbons to curb emissions and reiterate calls for mandatory speed limits

Platts analytics also projected that green shipping regulations may support pricing of key petrochemicals such as naphtha, which is a base material for producing high-grade gasoline

Some 86 tankers have entered dry dock for retrofitting scrubbers so far in 2019, acording to Alphatanker, compared with 153 bulk carriers and 76 containerships.

Former defence secretary reveals she asked five times before Theresa May agreed to a meeting of Britain’s crisis Cobra committee to discuss the Iranian threat to Middle East Gulf shipping

Insurance, legal, security and technology experts converged on London to discuss why transparency is potentially a double-edged sword for shipping stakeholders. For every digital advance that enhances efficiency and secures compliance, there are risks of liability and insurance risk

In the first of a daily series of London International Shipping Week Podcasts, Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade dissects the current sanctions risk facing shipping with the help of Lloyd’s list’s tanker tracker-in-chief Michelle Wiese Bockmann and input from the panel of experts pulled together to talk at Lloyd’s List’s Transparency in Shipping Forum

A panel during the Lloyd’s List Transparency Forum in London addressed the ambiguity of sanctions and the role of developing technology in compliance

ABS chief Chris Wiernicki is in the studio with Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade for today’s podcast and they are talking about the path from here to 2050 and why software safety must be integrated into the industry’s planning now. It’s not going to be the structure or equipment that will cause the next major accident — it’s the software that we don’t see that is shipping’s greatest risk factor

Paddy Rodgers, the former Euronav chief executive and current director of Royal Museums Greenwich, looks ahead to the London International Shipping Week agenda with Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade, considering everything from the domestic focus on Brexit to the global challenges that face the entire industry

As London International Shipping Week approaches, we recommend that the focus is firmly international (rather than Brexit) and transparency is top of everyone’s agenda. Iran’s latest antics could be written off as yet more political posturing, but the implications all point to more intense scrutiny for shipping and the need for better risk mitigation

As London International Shipping Week approaches, along with the increasing likelihood of a no-deal Brexit, we are joined by UK Major Ports Group chief executive Tim Morris on this week’s Podcast to discuss what lies beyond Brexit for the UK port sector and how to build a ‘strong port’, indeed a strong maritime sector, sufficiently resilient to withstand the mega trends from here to 2050

Surveys of Tokyo’s relative status among its peers suggest it ranks lower than it should on a world scale 

Britannia no longer rules the waves, but London's world-beating cluster of white-collar shipping services leaves the UK capital with fair claim to be one of the world's major maritime centres

With an enviable talent pool, Hamburg is diversifying to ensure it keeps its role as Germany’s premier shipping centre

Shipping insurers put on alert after Lloyd’s List Intelligence data reveals suspicious patterns of behaviour by vessels in relation to trading with Iran in breach of US sanctions