Despite initial resistance from shipper groups, liner customers are coming to accept they will foot the bill for low-sulphur fuel

Pipework problems are requiring costly repairs to scrubber systems less than six months after installation in some cases, corrosion experts have told Lloyd’s List.

How do we fund zero-carbon shipping and accelerate it beyond the current IMO targets? Double freight rates and use the IMO seems to be the message from today’s panel. Joining us on today’s edition from around London International Shipping Week we have a stellar panel of experts: businessman, academic and former chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority, Lord Adair Turner; Director of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former podcast guest) Baroness Bryony Worthington; and Grimaldi Group managing director Emanuele Grimaldi

Tovald Klaveness chief Lasse Kristoffersen believes shipping should create a $20bn carbon fund modelled on Norway’s NOx fund to plough financing into the required transition to zero-emissions fuels

Aside from increased demand ahead of IMO 2020, the company expects an expansion in US oil-product shipments to Asia and Latin America

UK-flagged tanker Stena Impero, which was detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19, remains in captivity

The US is being far too draconian in the way it imposes sanctions on Iran. Seafarers of any rank are unlikely to know or even be able to track down the precise details of for whom they are working. For the US to put marine workers’ names on a blacklist — even in the absence of fault or criminal intent — is misguided and unjust

‘One of the things you can say about Trump is that he is pretty open about everything he doesn’t like, so you can see where things are heading,’ says Reed Smith partner Leigh Hansson

London International Shipping Week was dominated by discussions about the acceleration in the climate change agenda and how the shipping industry must deal with the ever-increasing spotlight on sanctions

The Lloyd’s List team have squeezed into their finest formal attire, popped a cork and gathered round the microphone to give you a prosecco-fuelled reflection on the blur that was London International Shipping Week. From zero carbon politics and 2050 targets to training and of course Brexit — we’re not short of an opinion or five on the biggest issues of the day. Consider this the digestif after the full fiver course tasting menu we’ve been serving you up all week in audio form.

As we near the final mile of the London International Shipping Week marathon, we join two of the race leaders to reflect on the major themes of the week’s debate, including: political backing for shipping, financing the fourth industrial revolution and the benefit of robust debate, along with a little hirsute finance leadership. Joining Lloyd’s List Editor Richard Meade from the LISW conference today are Harry Theochari, global head of transport at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and chair of Maritime UK, and Michael Parker, chairman of Citi’s shipping and logistics business.

How do we fund zero-carbon shipping and accelerate it beyond the current IMO targets? Double freight rates and use the IMO seems to be the message from today’s panel. Joining us on today’s edition from around London International Shipping Week we have a stellar panel of experts: businessman, academic and former chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority, Lord Adair Turner; Director of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former podcast guest) Baroness Bryony Worthington; and Grimaldi Group managing director Emanuele Grimaldi

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