23 OCT 2025 Korean officials are reporting that two workers on a dredger at Gunsan, in southwest Korea on the Yellow Sea, were badly injured during an incident aboard the vessel Tuesday morning, October 21. The National Fire Service and local teams responded after reports of an explosion on the …
Read More »DECARBONIZATION FOCUS MOVES TO MEPC WORKING GROUP AFTER IMO’S DELAY
22 OCT 2025 The IMO’s Intersessional Working Group on the Reduction on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships convened as scheduled today, October 20, as the shipping industry remains confused over last week’s decision to adjourn for one year the discussions on the Net-Zero Framework. Some participants are feeling relief while …
Read More »LPG CARRIER ON FIRE AND DRIFTING OFF YEMEN ISSUES DISTRESS CALL
21 OCT 2025 A Cameroon-flagged LPG carrier issued a distress call Saturday morning, October 18, while sailing near Yemen, but the cause of an explosion and fire is unclear. EUNAVFOR Aspides is coordinating a search and rescue operation using a Greek frigate and French air assets in the region. The …
Read More »IMO DELAYS ADOPTION OF NET ZERO FRAMEWORK BY A YEAR
20 OCT 2025 After four days of increasingly tense and fraught negotiations at the MEPC plans for a global carbon levy on shipping have been postponed. The member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have voted to delay adoption of the Net Zero Framework after strong opposition from the US …
Read More »INDUSTRY VOICES DISAPPOINTMENT AND CONCERN AS IMO POSTPONES GLOBAL SHIPPING CARBON TAX VOTE
20 OCT 2025 Governments at the International Maritime Organization decided to postpone for one year the adoption of what would have been the world’s first global carbon pricing system on international shipping at the Extraordinary Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee in London this week. The delay follows pressure …
Read More »MORE SEAFARERS ARE EXAGGERATING CVS TO WIN TANKER JOBS WARNS DANICA
20 OCT 2025 Faced with increasing financial pressures and a competitive workplace, a growing number of seafarers are exaggerating their work experience or downright falsifying their resumes to secure jobs on tankers, warns international crewing service provider Danica. The group is calling for closer collaboration between authorities, training centers, and …
Read More »SHIPOWNERS TAKE STEPS TO AVOID U.S. AND CHINESE PORT FEES
19 OCT 2025 Shipowners are starting to reveal some of the steps that are being taken to avoid the port fees instituted by the U.S. and China this week, targeting ships built, owned, or operated by companies in the respective countries. The steps come as the industry also flagged the …
Read More »IRANIAN OIL EXPORTS TO CHINA COME UNDER RENEWED PRESSURE
18 OCT 2025 Iranian oil exports to China, which over the previous three months averaged 1.52m bpd, fell to 1.4m bpd in September. From January to August, the average monthly figure was 1.45m bpd, so the figure for September shows a fall below this average, and Vortexa estimate that the …
Read More »US THREATENS VISA RESTRICTIONS, SANCTIONS AGAINST UN MEMBERS THAT BACK IMO EMISSIONS PLAN
18 OCT 2025 The United States on Friday (10th Oct 2025) threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping. U.N. member nations are scheduled to …
Read More »BEST MEDICINE FOR JOINT PAIN ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK, EXPERT SAYS
17 OCT 2025 Stiff knees, aching hips and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older. But while osteoarthritis is the world’s most common joint disease, experts say the way we treat and prevent it is badly out of step with …
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