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Ships ignoring basic safety standards are creating additional risks for crews in the Strait of Hormuz. IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez has called on governments to pay closer attention to these violations as the conflict continues. His statement was reported by gCaptain.
A seafarer was killed after the capesize bulker Cape Dao was hit while sailing through the Strait of Hormuz on September 23. The 2002-built ship, flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, was struck off Oman’s Musandam Peninsula. The attack caused a fire in the engine room and left the vessel drifting, Splash 247 reported.
Shipping is making progress with cleaner fuels, but uncertainty over the IMO’s Net-Zero Framework could slow the transition. A new report from the UCL Energy Institute and the Getting to Zero Coalition shows that technology is moving forward, while demand, investment and policy support remain weaker, reports gCaptain.
The International Maritime Organization has ended four days of talks on its proposed Net-Zero Framework without reaching a final agreement. The discussions showed some progress, but key issues remain unresolved, Maritime Executive reports.
More than 90 seafarers are being held by pirates and armed robbers in the Gulf of Aden and nearby waters as piracy resurges in the region, Splash 247 reports, citing the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The International Maritime Organization has greenlit the largest Emission Control Area (ECA) ever, covering the North-East Atlantic, reports The Maritime Telegraph. For shipping CEOs, the signal is simple: stricter emissions rules are scaling fast across core trade lanes.
A Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption has left around 3,200 vessels carrying nearly 20,000 seafarers stranded west of the waterway as security risks escalate across the Persian Gulf, as The Maritime Telegraph claimed.
LNG is no longer a theoretical bridge fuel but a central pillar of shipping’s energy transition, writes Peter Keller, Chairman of Sea-LNG, in an author’s column published by Maritime Executive. For CEOs navigating decarbonization, LNG now represents scale, compliance certainty, and commercial flexibility.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has voted to postpone for one year the adoption of its Net-Zero Framework after one of the most contentious meetings in the organization’s history, The Maritime Executive reports. The plan, which was designed to set a unified global standard for decarbonizing international shipping.
