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The government of India has given its approval to renew long term agreements with Japanese and South Korean steel mills for the supply of high grade iron ore.

  The Government of India approved a proposal for the country’s accession to an international convention which ensures compensation for damage caused by ship bunker oil spills. The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved the Ministry of Shipping's proposal for India's accession to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001 (Bunker Convention) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as well as to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 to give effect to the Bunker Convention, Nairobi Convention and Salvage Convention. The Bunker Convention ensures adequate, prompt, and effective compensation for damage caused by spills of oil, when carried as fuel in ships' bunkers. The territorial jurisdiction for damage compensation extends to territorial sea and exclusive economic zones. It applies to an Indian vessel, wherever it is situated, and to a foreign flag vessel while it is within Indian jurisdiction. The registered owner of every vessel has to maintain compulsory insurance cover which allows claim for compensation for pollution damage to be brought directly against an insurer. Every ship above one thousand gross tonnage has to carry a certificate on board to the effect that it maintains insurance or other financial ...

India's Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi approved the Ratification of the ILO Convention No. 185 on the SID

Swire Shipping and Rickmers-Linie announced the launch of a connecting carrier partnership

DGS issued a circular summarizing an investigation into an allision of a bulk carrier with an anchored tanker

Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, visited HHI to seek increased partnership between Indian shipyards and HHI

Prime Minister of India, visited Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to seek increased partnership between Indian shipyards and HHI to ensure Indias shipbuilding industry can benefit from the shipbuilding expertise and experience of HHI.

European, Turkish and Chinese ship breakers are set to benefit from strict new EU laws on scrapping old ships, potentially significantly impacting South Asian beach scrap yards. Of 1,026 ocean-going ships scrapped in 2014, 641 were broken up on beaches in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, according to figures from the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. Cargo ships and cruise liners that have reached the end of their useful life are driven at full speed onto beaches and stripped down by hundreds of unskilled workers using simple tools with little health and safety measures or environmental protections. Chemicals routinely leak into the ocean when the tide comes in and there is a huge human cost, according to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, which estimates that during the last 20 years 470 workers have been killed in Alang-Sosiya, the world’s largest stretch of ship-breaking beaches. Almost half of all scrapped ships are sent to the beaches of Alang, known as the graveyard of all ships. Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for the Environment and Maritime Affairs, says “the shameful practice of European ships being dismantled on beaches” will be ended with the introduction of the new law. The measure will require that ...

IRClass Academy organised an expert panel discussion to discuss maritime professional development in India