Declan Bush
Reporter
Declan Bush is a Lloyd’s List news reporter based in London. He contributes to daily News Desk coverage across shipping industry beats. Declan is interested in a range of topics including regulation, environment, and seafarer safety.
He worked in local newspapers in Western Australia before moving to the UK in 2017 and working in legal trade publications. Declan received his undergraduate degree in international relations and journalism from Curtin University, Perth, in 2015.
Latest From Declan Bush
IMO short of emissions experts
Governments have backed the IMO’s request to hire two more officers as the growing workload of regulating greenhouse gases and other emissions swamps its air pollution team
Shipping apes G7 to spread the word for seafarers
The UK Chamber of Shipping is lobbying more for action on crewing, green shipping and digitalisation during the G7 meeting, saying the industry’s message is not getting through enough
Nigeria’s anti-piracy initiative wins shipping's approval
Nigeria announced its Deep Blue maritime security project — a mix of coastal surveillance, troops, patrol boats and aircraft it is hoped will help the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
IMO chief warns ‘failure not an option’ on cutting emissions
International Maritime Organization secretary-general Kitack Lim opened the Marine Environment Protection Committee with a stronger-than-usual warning on the need for shipping to develop emission regulations
Yantian Port congestion has echoes of Suez
Supply chain chaos at Chinese ports, the politics of China's pitch for a Hamburg terminal stake, and why shipping may not be able to swerve the new push for a global corporation tax
Lives are being lost while crewing crisis drags on, Anglo-Eastern chief says
Anglo-Eastern chief executive Bjorn Hojgaard told a crewing webinar 18 of his company’s 30,000 seafarers had died from Covid-19 in recent months, with an average age of 37