Nautilus Labs publishes white paper on charter parties to meet MEPC 80 goals

New York-based tech firm Nautilus Labs has published a white paper discussing revised charter parties to meet MEPC 80 goals. Owners and charterers will need to look at how they operate with approaches such as slow steaming and how they structure charter parties, the white paper argues, going on to argue: “It is no secret

Data is the key to a future of emissions trading

High profile decisions at July’s Marine Environment Protection Committee will accelerate the International Maritime Organization’s decarbonisation ambitions for shipping, but a proposal of apparently smaller consequence could lay down a data marker for global emissions trading. Less convergence is apparent on carbon pricing. Proposals before MEPC 80 aim to incentivise greener fuels, with levy and

US calls for stringent interim goals for shipping decarbonization

Sue Biniaz, the US deputy special envoy for climate, described July’s MEPC meeting as a “key moment” to create emissions reduction targets for the sector that align with the 1.5-degree goal.