Nick Brown, director of marine and offshore for Lloyd’s Register, lays out his vision of how shipping will evolve technologically in the decades to come and what role classification societies should play

The difficulty of incorporating scrubbers into time-charter strategies has turned some ship operators off scrubbers, while pushing others towards spot deals

A trend away from the traditional sources of shipping capital has been building for years

Views have sharply diverged on how indices should reflect IMO 2020 changes. Now that the Baltic Exchange index council has made its final decision, there could be consequences

John Hadjipateras, the chief executive of New York-listed Dorian LPG and the Connecticut Maritime Association’s 2019 Commodore, talks about Scorpio’s orders, BW’s bid, LPG’s potential, and the power of the positive surprise

The Paralos Fund, a leading FFA trader, argues that the Baltic Exchange is pushing an IMO 2020 response plan that conflicts with the very benchmarking guidelines it claims to abide by