The Green Port Award System (GPAS) programme is a green evaluation system for ports in the APEC region developed by Asia-Pacific Port Services Network.
VLSFO was rushed into the maritime industry to meet IMO2020 regulations and it has shown signs of exceeding set safety parameters, reports Forbes.
Sumitomo will desist from participating in auctions for new oil projects but will maintain existing projects and focus on renewable energy, reports Reuters.
ExxonMobil, Hoegh LNG, MAN Energy Solutions Singapore, Jurong Port, PSA Singapore and ITOCHU Group with their partners, are initial project partners.
New law doubles existing minimum and maximum fines for certain oil spill violations related, among other things, to parties who knowingly engage in oil pollution.
There are numerous factual inaccuracies throughout the article in relation to MOL and other organisations and evidence or justification, it said.
Carnival awards Shell with multi-year contract to provide marine lubricants to its ships where it will also offset carbon emissions through Shell’s nature-based carbon credits.
The industry doesn’t want to decarbonise just to be compliant. We recognise the biggest threat is climate change [...] and we want to be proactive, said...
Initiative is in response to upcoming IMO environmental regulations, the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and the paradigm shift in the maritime industry.
With most retrofits requiring docking, the pandemic offers an economically sound opportunity to upgrade old ships into leaner vessels for the future, it said.
