From the London Shipping Law Centre: Dear Members, We are pleased to provide you with the links to the recordings of our webinars held in May: BIMCO’s SHIPSALE 22 (18th May 2022)…
Fed presidents cautiously optimistic for a soft landing By Julian Jacobs The central question facing the US economy right now is whether the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes will produce…
IACS Council Launches New ‘Safe Decarbonisation Panel’ To Support The Implementation Of New Fuels And Technologies Meeting in London this week the IACS Council, Chaired by Mr. Nick Brown, CEO…
Uncomfortable realities behind ECB’s dilemma over fragmentation and inflation By David Marsh The European Central Bank’s complex planning for an anti-fragmentation facility for euro area unity could backfire – by…
Inflation blame game By Julian Jacobs Amid declining real wages, accumulating household debt and the looming prospect of recession, the problem of inflation is now firmly in the arena of…
The Governments of Finland and Sweden, Seas at Risk, Ocean Care, Clean Shipping Coalition, Clean Arctic Alliance together with the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) and Research Institutes of…
The first WISTA Hellas ‘Women at Sea’ seminar, staged at Posidonia 2022, offered a thorough examination of the challenges facing women seafarers as well as food for thought on how…
Union of Greek Shipowners targets decarbonisation across value chain Following a meeting during the 2022 Posidonia trade fair in Athens, MAN Energy Solutions and the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS)…
INTERNAL AUDITING OF CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT (ONLINE TRAINING) – NEW!! DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 4 and 5 July 2022, a course on Cyber Risk Management Internal Auditing. Since January 1st, 2021 DOCs audits will…
ECB to design new anti-fragmentation instrument By Lewis McLellan The return of inflation and a backdrop of rising rates have led to a rapid widening of European government bond spreads.…
Navigational Audits DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 5 July 2022, a one-day course on Navigational Audits. The biggest risk facing a ship owner is a major navigational incident in spite of the…
Global Public Investor 2022 launch Tuesday 5 July, Launch OMFIF’s Global Public Investor is a key reference point for financial institutions and provides a lens on approaches to investing in…
Bungled monetary policy raises stakes for issuers and investors By Philip Moore Inflation and geopolitics have become the primary concerns of global public investors, supplanting the winding-down of central bank…
With an emotional touch, the most successful Posidonia exhibition so far, came to an end, with the organization of YES to Shipping Forum 2022 on Friday 10 June, which was…
We were delighted to return to Posidonia for our keystone conference on managing risk across freight markets and are grateful to all that were able to join us. Please see photos…
How the new geopolitical reality affects ESG By Marcus Pratsch The war in Ukraine has a massive impact on all four dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental, social and governance. Given the…
Crypto margin call must wake up regulators By Lewis McLellan Recently proposed US stablecoin and digital assets regulation will come too late to avert a series of disasters for the…
ESG mindset, funding, collaboration and “filotimo” HELMEPA’s game changer event on Sustainable Shipping brought together over 420 shipping stakeholders who attended a lively debate between top leading shipowners and cross-industry…
The Seminar will be held online from Monday, 5 September 2022 to Tuesday, 6 September 2022, from 11.00 a.m. to 2 p.m. (UTC+1). IMO will be hosting a seminar to…
by Frances Baskerville* The 2022 POSIDONIA event at the Metropolitan Expo, off Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, felt as if the world had come back to life again. There was no…
High inflation challenges central banks’ green push By Miroslav Singer ECB President Christine Lagarde has commented about the possibility of a ‘green’ discount rate, 50 basis points lower than the…
Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) – 78th session, 6-10 June 2022 IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee progresses work on GHG reduction; approves Mediterranean Sea emission control area. Highlights: 1. GHG – The MEPC…
Good Morning Monaco Tuesday, June 14, 2022 All coronavirus indicators show significant increaseMonaco Government figures released on Monday, June 13, show a marked increase in key indicators as coronavirus continues…
Put CBDCs on the back burner for now By Herbert Poenisch As most central banks research introducing digital currencies, the world is embroiled in an inflationary storm not seen in…
The BDI (Baltic Dry Index) fall continued both on a daily as well as on a weekly basis. Geopolitics given the Ukrainian mess will bother us for the foreseeable future……