American researchers are calling for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Committee to ban trans-shipping.The Pew Charitable Trust said tens of millions of dollars each year was lost to the practice of offloading catch before it reached its final destination.
Posted on - 2019-09-29The Pacific Islands are one of the most endangered regions on earth due to climate change. Countries in the collective are now pushing to decarbonise their own maritime sectors and improve the quality of service and infrastructure available to shipping.
The Marshall Islands, Fiji and others are eyeing a 10-year plan to modernise Pacific Island shipping and want to fully decarbonise by 2050.
Posted on - 2019-09-29At the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York today a host of top shipowners, managers, ports, banks and shippers have vowed to get commercially viable zero emission vessels operating on deepsea routes by 2030.
The Getting to Zero Coalition features the likes of Maersk, Shell, Cargill and Trafigura among its 70+ members.
Posted on - 2019-09-29