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China's COSCO Shipping Corporation has announced that it will ban all shark fin shipments, joining a growing number of transport and logistics companies standing up against a brutal trade that kills millions of sharks annually.

A group of eight environmental NGOs has said that the EU’s failure to push for a ban on the use by ships of heavy fuel oil (HFO), a toxic pollutant, when operating in the Arctic is a major cause of concern. However, they welcomed the European Commission’s focus on climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and on protecting the environment in its new Arctic strategy.

Pacific Environment is calling on the International Maritime Organization to prohibit the use of heavy fuel oil in Arctic waters at its MEPC meeting which takes place this week.The Environmental Group highlights that prohibiting the use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic will produce a number of significant environmental and social benefits.

South Korea announced it would impose new sanctions against 40 individuals and 30 entities because of suspected links to North Korea's weapons program and would ban vessels that had stopped at North Korean ports in the past 180 days.

The Maritime Safety Administration of China informs about the newly revised Provisions on the Prevention and Control of Vessel Pollution of the Inland Water Environment which were announced recently and would come into force on May 1st 2016

There has been substantial discussion in the press in relation to the difficulties facing commercial parties trying to load oil cargoes in Nigeria. Beth Larkman, Syndicate Associate Claims, Steamship Mutual, provides an overview of the situation.

The use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic could have disastrous consequences. Banning this fuel would protect the region’s rich wildlife, improve human health and benefit the climate, writes Sue Libenson

A group of fifteen environment groups delivered a letter to the Arctic Council renewing a call on the involved nations to ban the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.The use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic could have disastrous consequences. Banning this fuel would protect the region’s rich wildlife, improve human health and benefit the climate

Currently, there was a ban on the import of vehicles, cement and steel debars in Algeria in effect pending the new import licence rules soon to enter into force. The Skuld P&I Club has now been informed that the suspension has been replaced with a set of restrictions in the said licence rules.

Wilhelmsen Ships Service is warning of price, supply and safety risks in the run-up to the global ban on R-22 (chlorodifluoromethane or HCFC) refrigerant. The colourless gas, which has high ozone depletion and global warming potential, is still said to be in use on between 6,000 and 8,000 vessels worldwide.R-22 was outlawed throughout the EU in a process that ran from 2010 to 1st January 2015. It is currently being phased out in the US, where no new or imported R-22 will be permitted from 1 January 2020. As part of the Montreal Protocol (MP), a UN agreement to protect the ozone layer, HCFC use will be phased out in member countries by 2030.“R-22 is a versatile and effective refrigerant gas that has served the shipping industry well, but it is fast approaching the end of the line,” comments Svenn Jacobsen, Technical Product Manager Refrigeration at Wilhelmsen Ships Service.“The compliance deadlines are approaching and this has, quite rightly, impacted tremendously on global production. As availability goes down price and supply risks go up, and this is potentially bad news for the owners of those remaining vessels that still use R-22.”Industry figures indicate that legal global R-22 production this year will ...