The basics The Apprenticeship Levy was announced in the 2016 Budget and aims to fund three million places for apprentices. The key elements of the levy are:
Vessel owners/operators are required to comply with the U.S. ballast water regulations provided in Title 33 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 151, Sections 151.1510 or 151.2025. Upon a vessel’s compliance date, these regulations require use of one of the
SEA\LNG, the multi-sector industry coalition aiming to accelerate the widespread adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel, today announced that is has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel
In 2016 the shipping industry saw significant supply side adjustments in reaction to continued market pressures. For shipbuilders this meant a historically low level of newbuild demand with fewer than 500 orders reported in 2016, and the volume of tonnage
A ship arrest can be done within a few hours at relatively low cost, depending on its location, making Canada one of the most favourable jurisdictions for ship arrests.
While not party to any Arrest Conventions, section 22(2) of the Federal
“Shipping is out of sight and therefore out of mind”, a quote from the animated film Seafarers Matter set the scene yesterday at the Seafarers Matter Conference[1]. “Too much emphasis has been put on administrative simplification, decarbonisation, and opening up
The Norwegian Maritime Authority has observed an increasing interest in using hydrogen as marine fuel and wants to work closely with the industry in the development of the new technology.
On Wednesday 22 February the NMA participated in the NCE Maritime
ABS, a leading provider of classification and technical services to the marine and offshore industries, has published the ABS Advisory on Hybrid Electric Power Systems to provide the critical information marine and offshore owners and operators need to make smarter
Verifavia, the world’s leading emissions verification company for the transport sector (aviation and shipping), today announced that it has been fully accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) as a global EU monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) verifier.
This accreditation
Maritime professionals’ trade union Nautilus International is arguing for fairer regulation in the shipping industry to safeguard more skilled and less precarious jobs for European seafarers.
Speaking during a European Shipping Week seminar on how to make the European shipping industry