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Scrubbers were installed on 399 ships in 2022, a fall of 24% y/y, and currently 13% of bulker, container, and tanker ships have a scrubber installed. Despite the slowing rate of installations, the share of ships with a scrubber is set to increase in coming years as 17% of ships in the shipyards’ order books are expected to have a scrubber installed.
Work has begun on the revision of BIMCO’s Standard Ship Repair Contract, codenamed REPAIRCON.
If you work a little harder every day and do your work a little better and smarter today than yesterday, you will stand a better chance of running a successful shipping business. Those words of wisdom catch the optimism bubbling at the NAVIGATOR 2011 event in Athens, Greece. A business full of hardship in recent years has only drowned a few of the die-hard optimists within the shipping industry.
The guidelines are based on shared best practices put together by the Vehicle Carrier Safety Forum (VCSF), a consortium of ship operators, insurers and industry experts, whose role is to promote safety on ships that carry vehicles.
Despite increased demolition of Capesize ships, the size of the fleet is set to grow substantially.
World Health Organization (WHO) issues interim guidance on operational considerations for managing coronavirus outbreak on board ships.
BIMCO, the world’s largest shipping association, has moved a step closer to finishing a global set of guidelines needed to protect the marine environment from invasive species and reduce CO2 emissions. Currently, there is no common global standard for cleaning ships’ hulls to avoid transferring invasive aquatic species, nor for the potentially damaging debris washed off in the process.
In a landmark decision, BIMCO cemented its move into the domain of ship financing with the Documentary Committee’s approval of a standard term sheet for use in ship financing transactions on 17 November 2016.
