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
Greenpeace calls for oil boom to counter ‘grave threat’ of abandoned tanker
Greenpeace has called for an oil boom to be placed around the floating storage vessel Safer and urged countries to agree how to remove its cargo. Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to block UN efforts to inspect and fix the tanker, which has 1.14m barrels of oil on board
Shipping scrambles to manage Russia sanctions risk
Security analysts have downplayed the physical risk to shipping in the event of a military conflict in Ukraine, but the legal fallout of potentially far-reaching financial sanctions targeting Russia could leave some maritime businesses exposed
Tanker boost and higher oil and gas prices if Russia invades Ukraine
Analysts say European sanctions on Russian gas unlikely, but if enacted could benefit gas carriers. However, uncertainty over sanctions makes other impacts hard to predict
Liner lobby opposes EU bid to make charterers pay for carbon
Plans to make charterers, not owners, pay for carbon credits when the European Union carbon market is extended to shipping is opposed by trade group, putting it at odds with shipowners and green lobby
Shipping eyes future market for CO2 carriers
Shipping companies are looking to develop bigger CO2 carriers with demand for carbon capture expected to grow
RightShip releases carbon accounting tool
RightShip has added a tool for accounting and reporting emissions to its online platform as more companies look at monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions