Regulation & Policy – Page 5

  • Sustainability was among many of the challenges discussed at PEMA's AGM
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    Digitalisation to address sustainability challenge

    2018-02-21T11:08:00Z

    The digitalisation of ports and terminal operations offers ways to realise a fourth industrial revolution and clean up the environment.

  • The MoU was signed by Kitack Lim, IMO Secretary-General Phil Bennett, First Vice President of the EBRD
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    IMO and EBRD partner up for sustainable shipping

    2018-02-12T15:14:00Z

    IMO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are partnering up to help promote sustainable shipping in the first such arrangement the body has had with a multilateral development bank.

  • RightShip can effectively calculate the theoretical fuel consumption and the equivalent carbon emissions for each individual ship voyage
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    Establishing a benchmark to reduce emissions

    2018-01-24T10:59:00Z

    Many of the world’s 3,000 plus port cities have poor air quality. Whilst much of that may be down to industrial activities in the area, including rail and air transport, ship and terminal activities can also be significant contributors to poor air quality, writes Wayne Blumenthal, commercial & strategic manager, ...

  • Secretary-General of IMO Kitack Lim
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    IMO says GHG goals should be ambitious

    2017-11-29T11:29:00Z

    Member states have been told they should set ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals at the IMO’s 30th assembly session.

  • IMO Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions
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    Mixed views following IMO emissions talks

    2017-10-31T11:23:00Z

    Talks by the IMO Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships have been “broadly satisfying”.

  • Isabelle Ryckbost
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    Ship waste management is ESPO priority

    2017-10-19T14:38:00Z

    The call from European ports for an efficient but responsible ship waste management policy will be prioritised by ESPO.

  • Global Maritime Forum
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    Decarbonisation task force could galvanise ports

    2017-10-18T15:00:00Z

    A maritime-led task force set up to decarbonise shipping may further encourage the decarbonisation of ports.

  • Aqaba is ahead of the game with regards to sustainability, with an emphasis on materiality assessment Photo: Xavi Talleda/Wikimendia CC BY 2.0
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    Are sustainable development goals relevant for sea ports?

    2017-09-13T12:08:00Z

    In 2015, 193 UN member countries adopted a 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of a new sustainable development agenda, but are they relevant for sea ports? asks Claire Bryant, director, Future Proof Solutions and Jason Sprott, director, Sprott Planning & Environment Pty Ltd.

  • Port of London Authority is on a mission to clean up the Thames
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    London port switches its attention to air quality

    2017-08-03T11:55:00Z

    With the concern over air quality issue in cities and public health rising, the Port of London Authority (PLA) in the UK is working to develop a new air quality strategy for the Thames.

  • IMO’s MEPC meeting
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    Ballast Water Management progress “too slow”

    2017-07-10T18:00:00Z

    The installation timeframe for ballast water management systems has been extended until September 2024, prompting some NGOs to say decarbonisation policy is moving too slowly.

  • MEPC 71
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    MEPC approves BWM treaty draft amendments

    2017-07-07T16:06:00Z

    The IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 71) has approved draft amendments to the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention treaty linking BWM installation implementation schedules to ships’ renewal surveys.

  • Ships participating in ESI
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    ESI to evaluate CO2

    2017-07-06T12:10:00Z

    The Environmental Ship Index (ESI) will be first sustainable quality mark in international shipping to evaluate the performance of vessels in reducing CO2.

  • Seaspan’s two new ferries delivered this year broke new ground by combining LNG propulsion with ESS Photo: Seaspan
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    BV adds hybrid power and battery rules

    2017-07-06T10:00:00Z

    Bureau Veritas has consolidated its experience in the field of hybrid vessels with a new series of notations and rules addressing energy storage systems (ESS) to support ship operators in reducing emissions.

  • Peter Mollema
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    Ports ready for zero emissions

    2017-06-27T17:36:00Z

    Ports are ready to embrace zero emission shipping, Peter Mollema, vice-president of Europe for the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), has said.

  • Ship emissions
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    IMO C02 reduction proposal

    2017-06-23T12:40:00Z

    BIMCO, INTERCARGO, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and INTERTANKO have made a joint proposal to the IMO to reduce international shipping CO2 emissions.

  • Eamonn O’Reilly
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    Technology is priority for port decarbonisation

    2017-06-09T14:20:00Z

    Stakeholders were urged to channel their energy into new technology to enable ports to embrace decarbonisation at a recent ESPO conference in Barcelona, Spain.

  • News

    Lloyd's low carbon report

    2017-02-16T12:31:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register has released its findings from its latest report which examines the outlook for renewables, nuclear, grid and infrastructure as well as energy storage.

  • Greener ship recycling with the help of DNV GL certifications
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    DNV GL to certify 50 IHMs

    2017-02-03T14:13:00Z

    DNV GL is set to carry out Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) certifications for the Norddeutsche Reederei H. Schuldt’s managed fleet of more than 50 vessels.

  • Expensive lesson: Since it received the fine the Port of Haifa has now taken steps to clean up his act
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    Haifa stung by environmental fines

    2017-01-06T10:46:00Z

    Israel''s Ministry of Environmental Protection has fined the Port of Haifa 2.2 million shekels ($570,000) for violating air pollution regulations.

  • IMO sets global sulphur cap for 2020
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    IMO agrees sulphur cap

    2016-10-28T09:43:00Z

    The International Maritime Organisation’s Marine Environment Protection Committee has agreed on a global 0.5% sulphur cap and established the next two NOx Emission Control Areas (NECAs).