OPINION AND ANALYSIS

Green game for gains

THE development of technical solutions to the shipping industry’s environmental challenges has been gathering pace as a number of important regulatory deadlines loom.

Wave of interest in blue sky thinking

ALTHOUGH no one expects the diesel engine to be replaced just yet, there are some useful proposals that have gone beyond the design stage, with experiments having proved that shipping can reduce its dependence on oil.

Where next for breakers?

Ship scrapping may be big business now, but with a newer fleet and stricter controls on the cards, where will the recyclers’ market lie?

IMO rejects campaigners’ call for ban on beaching

GREENPEACE, Friends of the Earth, human rights and labour groups have failed in their attempt to get the beaching of ships outlawed in the International Maritime Organization’s ship recycling convention.