Strait Talk

The issue often involves unscrupulous owners, shell companies, ineffective flag states and corrupt crewing agencies

IMO is trying to come up with a net-zero strategy that has a chance of being generally accepted

“EVENTS, dear boy, events,” was reportedly British prime minister Harold MacMillan’s answer to the question, posed by a journalist back in the 1960s, of what was most likely to blow a government off c...

But much of the industry remains preoccupied with the newly implemented European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, and would prefer a simple levy on bunker consumption

A recent report on a collision between two relatively small ships in northern European waters should provide food for thought for anyone involved in the operation of vessels.

LAST year, a survey by ship manager Danica found that one in 20 seafarers – “roughly one on every ship” – reported having experienced bullying, while 4 per cent felt they had been discriminated agains...

IT WAS inevitable. If you keep on firing deadly weapons at people, sooner or later, you will kill them.

ASIAN shipowners with vessels sailing to and from Europe could soon be paying one billion euros (S$1.45 billion) a year in total once the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) kicks in full...

The focus of this week’s column was going to be on seafarer welfare, which was the subject of a conference I attended last week. It still will be, but it is not possible to talk about it without menti...