Environment

This page features all the latest news on how shipping impacts on the environment, focusing on developments in the effort to reduce emissions from the shipping sector and oil pollution.

Environment

June 23, 2017

Industry bodies submit CO2 proposals to IMO

Four major international trade associations have made a joint proposal to the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) concerning ambitious CO2 reductions by the international shipping...

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June 23, 2017

Caribbean ripe for LNG bunkering

The Caribbean is well positioned to move to LNG bunkering as the shipping industry seeks to comply with the new global emission cap for marine...

June 21, 2017

Gulf of Mexico Storm Cindy Disrupts Shipping, Crude Imports

Tropical Storm Cindy has halted service at a major oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico, prompted some evacuations at rigs and platforms and put...

June 20, 2017

ICS backs proposal to delay ballast water convention implementation

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), a global trade association for shipowners, says it wants the United Nations' International Maritime Organization (IMO) to back a...

June 20, 2017

Unusually Active Hurricane Season Has Gulf of Mexico in Sights

The Atlantic hurricane season is less than three weeks old yet it’s already threatening the energy-rich Gulf of Mexico coastline with flooding rains and sparking...

June 15, 2017

Astomos and Statoil look at LPG bunkering

Astomos Energy Corporation and Statoil have reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for further study in applying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as shipping bunker fuels....

June 9, 2017

Drilling rig in Norway gets all its power from land to cut emissions

An offshore drilling rig hired by Norwegian oil and gas producer Aker BP is getting all its power from electricity produced onshore, the firm said...

June 7, 2017

CMA CGM improves CO2 performance

The CMA CGM Group intends to reduce its CO2 emissions per transported container by 30% by 2025. (more…)

May 30, 2017

Marine insurers brace for new sulfur emission norms

Shipping companies will have to upgrade their vessels well in time to adhere to the upcoming global sulfur emission norms to avoid losing their classification...

May 26, 2017

U.S. Predicts Above-Average 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season

The Atlantic hurricane season will likely churn out an above-average 11 to 17 named storms, in part due to fading odds than an El Nino...

May 26, 2017

IMO should take ‘proactive action’ to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – IEA

The International Energy Agency has said the International Maritime Organization should take “proactive action” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping to meet the...

May 18, 2017

Hapag-Lloyd to burn 0.5pc sulphur bunkers in 2020

German shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd currently has no plans for marine fuel scrubber installations or retrofitting its fleet’s engines to burn LNG in order to meet...

May 17, 2017

Petronas Signs MoU to Explore LNG Bunkering

Malaysian oil company Petronas said on Tuesday it has signed an agreement with Gas4Sea partners, comprising Engie SA, Mitsubishi Corp and Nippon Yusen KK to...

Greenpeace ice class ship Esperanza tracking Shell's oil rig the Polar Pioneer on its way to drill in the Alaskan Arctic this summer in transit across the Pacific on board the heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin.
Six people from around the world are tailing Shell's Arctic oil rig across the Pacific on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. As ambassadors of a movement of millions, the six men and women want to expose Shell's reckless plans to drill in the remote Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic. The Esperanza has been tracking Shell's monstrous oil rig the Polar Pioneer since it left Brunei Bay in Malaysia.

May 4, 2017

Trump’s Arctic Drill Plan Challenged by Environmental Groups

Environmental groups are challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to restore oil and gas leasing on more than 125 million acres in the Arctic and Atlantic...