Hundreds of substandard, unclassed, uninsured vessels are routinely hauling Russian oil internationally while avoiding any serious oversight, so why are governments looking the other way and pretending the dark fleet is invisible?

While several fishing boats have been boarded in the region, this is the first time armed attackers have taken control of a cargo ship in the Gulf of Guinea in more than a year

The podcast is stateside this week, coming to you live from the annual Connecticut Maritime Association event in Stamford. Mark O’Neil, chief executive of Columbia Shipmanagement and Lois Zabrocky, chief executive and president of International Seaways sit around the Lloyd’s List microphone to discuss what’s shaping the industry agenda this year

Shipping’s climate negotiations are a high stakes game of poker, where governments will be looking to make deals in exchange for compromises. It makes little strategic sense to show your hand this early in the game, but real progress can be achieved in the next three months

Europe’s Net-Zero Industry Act, Brussels’ response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, could represent a step-change in efforts to enhance security and support the energy transition of industry in the bloc. But what does that mean for shipping? On the podcast this week ECSA secretary-general Sotiris Raptis helps decode the significance of the EU’s latest Green Deal

UK minimum wage will be extended to seafarers, while Labour is committing to a ‘Seafarers’ Charter’. Neither would have happened without the P&O Ferries’ shocking actions