Tag: trends

MOL and Tohoku Electric Power announced that a coal carrier equipped with Wind Challenger - a hard sail wind power propulsion system - was delivered and started operation on October 7, 2022.

NeurodiversAtSea, a seafarers’ neurodiversity charity, announced the launch of its first annual Neurodiversity Benchmark Survey. The survey aims to gather data in support of a maritime neurodiversity strategy.

Understanding what the future might look like is important so that the Port of Rotterdam Authority has developed four diverse global scenarios in detail.

In 2022, nine flag states have already joined a relatively new standards and safety regime aiming to shape the future of training for autonomous shipping globally, proving that, in the current landscape of growing automation, the human factor remains critical.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Maritime Foundation are partnering with Pacific Carriers Limited, Pacific International Lines and American Bureau of Shipping, to establish the Alliance for Future Maritime Talent (AFMT).

Opening this year’s IUMI annual conference in Chicago, President Richard Turner introduced “Adapting to a World in Transition” as this year’s conference theme, highlighting the impact of climate, asset, macroeconomic and geopolitical changes on marine insurers.

The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) presented its analysis of the 2021 marine insurance market trends, showing that global marine insurance premiums were up 6.4% on 2020, rising to USD 33 bn in 2021.

Speaking during the IUMI conference from Chicago, Rama Chandran, chairperson of the Ocean Hull Committee expressed concern over the long-term sustainability of the hull and machinery insurance sector.

The fifth annual Global Maritime Issues Monitor reveals that senior maritime decision-makers believe the maritime industry will be most impacted by the decarbonization of shipping and new environmental regulations in the next decade.

DHL and NYU Stern School of Business have published the new DHL Trade Growth Atlas, which expects that world trade is set for continual growth into 2023.