Lack of compliance with procedures is a very common cause of incidents in the shipping industry, often highlighted by official investigation reports. This leads to the expected conclusion that following procedures is a way to stop casualties, so compliance is enforced through the fear of facing consequences.

"New technologies for greener shipping" is this year’s World Maritime Day theme in a bid to reflect some of the most pressing environmental challenges increasingly affecting the future of the world and the maritime industry.

The Focused Inspection Campaign will take place from October 2022 to May 2023 and it will consist of inspections targeting safety requirements including safety equipment, certificates of operation, safety management systems, and UVI’s.

At the Global Maritime Forum’s Annual Summit in New York, young maritime professionals discussed what actions need to be taken for the maritime industry to attract future generations. Improving human sustainability will be imperative to help the industry appeal to and retain future talent – an issue increasingly pressing for the resiliency of the entire maritime value chain.

A new UCL study, released at the Marine Money conference taking place during New York Climate Week, found that, if policies that incentivise shipping to decarbonise in line with the Paris Agreement were in place by the end of the decade, the LNG-capable fleet would compete with zero emissions shipping, whilst also being incentivised to switch away from the use of fossil fuel.

Until now, satellites could only measure sea ice thickness between October and March, when the ice and snow are cold and dry. In the warmer months, melt ponds on top of the ice floes confused the instruments, which could not be used to distinguish between melted ice on an ice floe and the ocean. However, thanks to a new study involving UCL researchers, an algorithm was trained on thousands of simulations of satellite data to reliably distinguish between melt ponds and the ocean.

California State University Maritime Academy has appointed Samaro Bannister-Schneider to serve as interim captain of Training Ship Golden Bear (TSGB). Captain Bannister will serve as Cal Maritime’s first female TSGB captain and is a proud Cal Maritime alumna who brings with her an extensive career in marine transportation.

In 2022, the IMarEST analysed the responses from 700 marine engineers, scientists and technologists and spoke with experts from its Special Interest Groups in answer to the question: What do you think are the greatest challenges that will impact your sector/area of expertise in the short, medium and long-term future?’

U.S. shipping and logistics company Crowley has awarded Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) a contract for the charter of four newbuild containerships powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) for Crowley's U.S.-Central America trade.

Following the release of a new ICCT report on LNG, SEA-LNG issued a statement to clarify that the report uses poor data and unrealistic assumptions to misrepresent the benefits of the LNG pathway for shipping’s decarbonisation transition.