Richard Meade

Vetting agency RightShip's plan to cut the inspection threshold of vessels from 14 to 10 years is going ahead, but with greater flexibility and longer roll-out following industry criticism

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European Union minsters promise to keep cracking down on Russia's shadow fleet and combat sanctions circumvention

Moscow and Tehran may be the primary targets of Western sanctions, but messages from Brussels and Washington over the past few weeks seem to be directed squarely at Beijing

Not having a credible setup to support shipowners through growing complexity means getting deselected, says Kofod-Olsen

Kazakos is the right person to lead the ICS through what promises to be a period of significant change, says ICS chairman Emanuele Grimaldi

Given shipping's laggardly and resolutely anachronistic tendencies this may sound like a counter-intuitive claim to be making.

If Baltic states move from requesting insurance details from dark fleet ships to physically stopping ships from transiting, Russian naval escorts for dark fleet tankers will be the likely consequence

If a suspicious ship calls in a port it is essentially fair game at the hands of port state control when it comes to deficiencies. But that is not how the Law of the Sea Convention works