2020's international shipping news cycle so far has been an exercise in good news, bad news. To get at what I'm talking about, let me introduce you to a fun book by Jeff Mack I read [...]
IMO 2020 went into effect on January 1st, requiring sea vessels, including container ships, to abide by a 0.5% sulfur cap on fuel or use scrubbers (systems that clean fuel in engines) in order to [...]
This is a guest post by Jeremy Raynolds. In December 2018, we reached a new record level of carbon dioxide emissions. The global CO2 emissions for 2019 are still not in, but one thing is [...]
Before 2020 hits, let's take a look back at 2019. What happened in international shipping this year didn't happen in a bubble. Just like events of years past affected this year, the things [...]
We're less than a month away from New Year's Day when some big rule changes are to be implemented on the international shipping industry: Incoterms 2020 and IMO 2020 go into effect on January [...]
The outlook on shipping through the Arctic is changing. And I'm not just talking about the changes in climate making shipping through the North Pole possible. Ocean freight carriers are coming [...]
Ocean carriers' biggest answer to meeting the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) upcoming 0.5% sulfur cap on fuel (IMO 2020) might not be the answer after all. Or better stated, it might [...]
In only 5 months, starting on January 1st, 2020, cargo ships have to meet the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) new 0.5% sulfur cap on fuel known as IMO 2020. [...]
Less than half a year away from the IMO 2020 cleaner fuel mandate, the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (INTERCARGO) put out a media release raising safety concerns around the [...]
One of the biggest issues of our time is global warming. The ocean freight sector of the international shipping industry, in particular, faces an incredible challenge of reducing its greenhouse [...]
This is a guest post by Alexandra Reay.
In the past 40 years, the Arctic sea ice extent maximums and minimums have gotten increasingly smaller. Sea ice loss is happening, and it’s [...]
China's Ministry of Transport announced a while back upcoming changes to the country's fuel regulations in regard to sulfur content and emissions. We're fast approaching the implementation of the [...]
The ocean freight sector of international shipping is getting closer and closer to the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 0.5 percent sulfur cap on fuel. That goes into effect in [...]
Maersk announced that it is sending the first container ship from East Asia to Europe through the Arctic Ocean. Daniel Shane reports in CNN Money:
The newly built Venta Maersk is set [...]
Decarbonization is one of the top priorities of the ocean freight industry in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming. But apparently, emissions from all those ships out [...]
A draft of the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) update has been released by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. You have between now and September 18th to submit written comments on it. An [...]
As delegates from almost 200 countries, 195 to be exact, try to work together in Paris to negotiate a global climate agreement, the big news surrounding the latest draft of their global climate [...]
by Jared Vineyard Universal Cargo Management blogged previously about how melting ice in the arctic is opening up new shipping lanes. Climate changes and global warming have made advantageous new [...]
Could your ocean freight cargo be shipped directly across the North Pole? According to an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) by [...]
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