Jim Wilson

A landmark convention aimed at boosting safe and environmentally sound ship recycling came into force around the world yesterday. Adopted at a Diplomatic Conference in Hong Kong, China, in May 2009, the International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, is designed to ensure that ships at the end of their life...

By the International Chamber of Shipping* (* this item has been lightly edited by Shipping Australia).  The new International Chamber of Shipping Chairman-Designate has been named, and the new Secretary General has taken the helm, the ICS has reported. John Denholm CBE has been appointed as Chairman-Designate, to succeed Emanuele Grimaldi at the ICS AGM...

Next week is the Day of the Seafarer, which draws global attention to the contribution that seafarers make to world trade. The Day was designated by the United Nations in a resolution at the 2010 Diplomatic Conference in Manila to adopt the revised International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers. According to...

Extensive electronic interference with ships is being carried out in the southern and Middle Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Sea of Oman, Western naval authorities in the region have reported. Similar reports have been carried in the trade media. The UK Maritime Trade Operation, a programme of the UK Royal Navy that...

A collision between two tankers that led to an oil spill and a raging shipboard fire in the Gulf of Oman (to the south of Iran), was an accident, according to an official statement both from the United Arab Emirates, and also from the UK Maritime Trade Operations (part of the UK Royal Navy). Initial...

Shipping Australia does not have any information credibly pointing toward the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and we note comments by independent, commercial, maritime security consultancies that there is a low probability of Iran closing the Strait. Speculative commentary has appeared in the general media, which appears to have been driven by financial analysts,...

Geopolitical instability is the biggest headache for the third year running and it is raising the risk of a world recession, maritime leaders believe. Regulations are a “pressing concern” and are said to have the greatest impact on operations for the fourth year running, the ICS Maritime Barometer Report 2024-2025 states. Risks of global recession strengthen;...

Fremantle Ports has announced  maintenance dredging plans to remove 10,000 m3 of sediment for roughly five days from 23 June. The dredger Modi R ((IMO: 8876091; Denmark-flag; LOA 63.4 metres), is a trailing suction hopper dredger, and the hydrographic survey vessel Rind R (MMSI: 503686400), will be in operation for 24 hours during the project...

Complaints by seafarers to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority for breaches of the Maritime Labour Convention have fallen by 19%, AMSA has said. Most complaints, about 34%, were filed in Western Australia and the second-most, 43% were filed in Queensland. Of the 173 complaints received in 2024, 109 complaints were submitted directly by seafarers. Small...

Ship-to-ship ammonia transfer can be safe and practicable, provided that recommended safeguards and operational controls are implemented, the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation has said. The Centre has based its comments upon lessons learned from a pilot project carried out in September last year. Landmark trial A pilot project on the ship-to-ship transfer of liquid...