Senior medical professionals say that work to find a vaccine for Covid-19 won’t be successful until the first quarter of 2021. Widespread vaccination might not be completed until the end of 2021 at the earliest

Senior industry figures have expressed their dismay at the slow uptake of the protocols published over a month ago outlining a plan for facilitating crew changes amid lockdowns and travel restrictions globally 

We should have been in Singapore this week, setting the agenda for digitalisation and decarbonisation. But in the absence of a Singapore Maritime Week this year we’ve drafted in guests from the heart of Maritime’s Lion City to offer up a view of how the sector is coping with the coronavirus challenges, whether we can expect the current disruption to catalyse innovation and why we should expect more disruption to come. Joining this week are Esben Poulsson, chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping and Punit Oza, who’s supremely Singaporean CV includes positions at Klaveness Asia, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, Institute of Chartered shipbrokers and Singapore Management University.

Singapore’s forward planning is paying dividends, while its investment in digital technology and infrastructure should mean it is well-positioned to weather the health crisis

The port nation has launched a new test lab aimed at preserving the integrity of its mass flow meter-based regulatory regime

The ‘just-in-time’ initiative promoted by the MPA incorporates concurrent bunkering — ships can refuel while loading and unloading cargoes