Tag: Levy

World Bank has published a new report Distributing Carbon Revenues from Shipping, in which it discusses which countries could access carbon revenues, for what purposes, and on what terms.

NGO Opportunity Green supports a GHG levy with a starting price of $100/tonne of CO2 equivalent emissions to aid the International Maritime Organization's emissions strategy.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has submitted proposals to the IMO this week suggesting that a mandatory carbon levy on ships would incentivize the use of alternative marine fuels, such as ammonia, methanol and hydrogen.

Human Rights at Sea urges the Australian Government to reinforce political will and national legislative pathways to assure sustainable and long-term welfare support in law through existing maritime levy structures.

Human Rights at Sea informs that the introduction of a dedicated maritime levy in New Zealand is visibly maximizing support for seafarers.

The world’s most climate vulnerable countries (CVF) from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, have signed the ‘Dhaka-Glasgow Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum’, calling the IMO to set a greenhouse gas levy on shipping.

In the past months, Human Rights at Sea, along with in-country partners, has been discreetly pursuing its Maritime Levy Campaign in Australia.

Maritime New Zealand informed that changes to fees and the levy came into effect on 1 July. For this reason, the organization has put together the following questions and answers to guide operators through the Maritime Levy and fees process.

AMSA will be the only service provider under the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessel Safety. Australia will allocate an additional $10 million funding for the national system, which means no taxes to the industry for the first three years of AMSA's service delivery, in order to help all operators as services transition. 

The New Zealand Customs Service issued a notice stating that, effective 1 January 2016, a border Clearance Levy will be paid when passengers purchase air or cruise tickets for travel overseas or on arrival in New Zealand on a private aircraft or yacht. The levy includes GST and is paid by each person arriving and departing New Zealand: