Tag: INTERTANKO

Industry associations BIMCO, ICS, CLIA, IMCA, INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO and OCIMF have come together to publish security guidance applicable to navigating in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Nigeria has launched a tax probe into international petroleum shipping firms (IPSCs) that did business in Nigeria between 2010 and 2019. 

The Chairs of the Round Table of International Shipping Associations met in Athens to renew their collaboration, in the first physical meeting since 2019.

After more than a decade of effective threat-reducing counter-piracy operations the shipping industry has removed the ‘Indian Ocean High Risk Area’ (HRA).

BIMCO, FONASBA, IAPH, IFSMA, InterManager, INTERTANKO, IPTA and IUMI have published a climate change glossary to clarify and harmonise definitions and terminology to ensure that discussions around climate change and potential solutions for the shipping industry are based on a mutual understanding of what the commonly used terms mean.

The recent proposal by MEP Peter Liese to update the EU emissions trading system (ETS) draft directive and support the ‘polluter pays’ principle is cautiously welcomed by INTERCARGO.

INTERTANKO supported the recent proposal by MEP Peter Liese, which advocates the inclusion of charterers as responsible parties in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). 

INTERTANKO supports that shipping should achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050.

A healthy cyber usage lifestyle includes limits on daily screen time to make sure that usage doesn’t get in the way of sleep and activities that are good for seafarer’s overall wellbeing.

In a recent report, Intertanko outlines the plans and procedures to be put in place to prepare a ship for shore personnel to come on board and to protect seafarers from the dangers posed by COVID-19.