Ship&Offshore
13.01.2026
Ports & Logistics

Rina and HPC execute five-year Caspian Sea ports project

Classification society Rina and Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC) have won a five-year deal – ‘Promoting Green Ports and Connectivity in the Caspian Sea Region’. The green ports project will assist ports in the Caspian and Black Sea – Baku in Azerbaijan,…
Ship&Offshore
12.01.2026
Ship Operation

Hydrogen as fuel assessed in LR report

Hydrogen is likely to play a major role to play in shipping’s decarbonisation drive, according to a new report from Lloyd’s Register (LR). The latest publication in the classification society’s ‘Fuel for Thought’ series examines the scope for its…
Ship&Offshore
21.10.2025
Ship Operation

New ‘human-to-human’ voyage optimisation service

NAPA, a global provider of maritime software, and voyage optimisation specialist, Interoutes, have joined forces to launch a new Expert Route Monitoring service. Unlike most other systems, the new setup will be based on direct communications between…
Ship&Offshore
21.10.2025
Regulations

Global decarbonisation strategy on hold for a year

The extraordinary session of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee, held in London last week, failed to agree a deal on the UN Agency’s Net-Zero Framework, which has now been delayed for a year. Many maritime decarbonisation experts are…