Decarbonisation dominated the debate at this year’s Nor-Shipping, but in between hot air and emissions there was time to take the temperature of an industry in flux. The Lloyd’s List team out in Oslo reflect on their key takeaways from four days of conversations and canapes

It is day three of Nor-Shipping out in Oslo and the Lloyd’s List team are finally penetrating the pre-prepared headline pushes and have started to find a more nuanced debate about the real progress being made in shipping amongst the front-runners, the followers and the laggards. Today’s chat is with Cargill’s head of ocean transportation and the president of the Global Maritime Forum, Jan Dieleman

There is a visible gap between what the industry is saying it is doing about decarbonisation and what it is actually doing. But that oversimplifies the pace of a complicated set of transitions under way and the significant strides already taken by the front-runners pushing a progressive agenda, argue those behind the industry’s leading hubs for decarbonisation. Today’s edition of the podcast live from Norway challenges the naysayers and offers a compelling case for positivity

There has been an outbreak of optimism as the industry converges on Oslo this week to discuss the tectonic shifts of decarbonisation and digitalisation. The first in a daily series of podcasts live from Nor-Shipping hears how DNV Maritime’s chief Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen wants to fuel progress with collaboration and why MSC’s head of maritime policy and government affairs Bud Darr is brimming with hope

Our industry is providing a second front without the shooting. Let the vice tighten slowly but surely

In addition to pleading guilty to charges, including oil theft, the crew agreed to pay conviction fines and restitution to the Nigerian government and make an apology in print and electronic media as well as in Lloyd’s List. After all these conditions were fulfilled, the vessel was released offshore Nigeria’s Atlantic Coast on May 27