European Ports Welcome Agreement On CEF II
27.03.2019The European Seaports Organisation (ESPO) welcomes the Common Understanding between the European Parliament and the Council on the future Connecting Europe Facility (CEF II). With its vote on 25 March, the European Parliament’s Transport and Industry Committees confirmed the partial agreement, which sets out the EU’s funding priorities and modalities in the transport sector for the period 2021-2027.
learn more →Cold Ironing: The role of ports in reducing shipping emissions
26.03.2019With the shipping industry entering a new, environmentally-friendly period, stakeholders in the maritime industry are seeking for ways to reduce their ships’ emissions. Apart from choosing green fuels and scrubbers, ports come to add another solution: Cold Ironing. This is the process of providing shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth, while its main and auxiliary engines are turned off.
learn more →Italy Signs on for Chinese “Belt and Road” Port Investments
22.03.2019Italy's government is headed squarely for a deal with China on direct investment in as many as four major seaports, explicitly endorsing Beijing's "belt and road" economic development program.
learn more →ICS released the latest Flag State Performance Table
21.03.2019The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) published the latest update of its Flag State Performance Table. In the report, ICS analyzes how the administrations performed, by providing an annual overview of the world’s ship registers against a number of criteria.
learn more →Lloyd’s Register: Preparing for the maritime cyber security challenge in Greece
20.03.2019Imagine you are an Information Security Manager for a shipping company and while docked in port, a service technician boards your ship to perform a software update of the Voyage Data Recorder system and unknowingly introduces a virus.
learn more →ExxonMobil sees marine fuel expansion in light of IMO’s 2020 deadline
19.03.2019As the world is preparing for IMO's 2020 sulphur cap fuel regulation, oil major ExxonMobil’s marine fuels outfit is innovating to be at the forefront of the emerging low sulphur market, as Forbes reports. The oil major sees the sulphur regulations as an opportunity and not as an operational problem.
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