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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …