UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2023 calls for a “just and equitable transition” to a decarbonized shipping industry. The sector, whose greenhouse gas emissions have risen 20% over the last decade, operates an ageing fleet that runs almost exclusively on fossil fuels. As global leaders prepare for the next UN …
Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade.
India's reliance on asbestos in buildings and its poor protection for workers exposed to the material could lead to an explosion in related malignant disease, warn experts.
Shipping Cos Scrapping Old Fleet, Moving To Double Hull Ships T K Rohit | TNN Chennai/Ahmedabad: The recession swept in. Cargo traffic sank. Ship capacity went largely under-utilised and freight rates fell. The biggest beneficiary of this tempest seems to be India
Maulik Pathak / Ahmedabad February 06, 2010, 0:07 IST It is likely to dismantle most of its ships at the Gujarat yard. Japan is all set to drop anchor at Alang-Sosiya, the world
After interacting with local communities, UN special rapporteur Okechukwu Ibeanu believes that rising levels of toxic waste emanating from the ship-breaking industry has adversely impacted the environment along the sea coast of Gujarat. Mr Ibeanu, invited by the Indian government to visit the major ship-breaking centres of Alang and Sosia, …
The Union environment ministry’s order refusing beaching permission to Platinum II, a US origin ship, has proved futile. The ship is so damaged that it now touches the floor of the shallow sea off the Gujarat coast where it had anchored. It is now likely to be dismantled at Alang …
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: In another twist to the tale of infamous toxic-loaded Platinum II ship, the Gujarat government has claimed that the ship anchored near Alang for months now is a wreck and would need to be disposed of before monsoon sets in. Many in the Union …
Ajai Sreevatsan CHENNAI: An unidentified ship which dumped bilge water at a point close to the coast is the most likely reason for the oil slick, which hit the beach along Uthandi and Kanathur around 3 p.m. on Friday, according to government officials. Bilge water is a mixture of fresh …
Inland waterways have played an important role in the Indian transport system since ancient times. However, in the decades after independence, the importance of this mode of transport has declined considerably with the expansion of road and rail transport. Nevertheless, there is a growing realization that inland water transport has …
The increased flow of knowledge, resources, goods and services among nations that has occurred as a result of globalization has led to a major increase over the years in transport activity. This has had an impact on the environment in a number of ways: through increased economic activity in general; …
Combined, aviation and marine transportation are responsible for approximately 5 percent of total greenhouse (GHG) emissions in the United States and 3 percent globally and are among the fastest growing modes in the transportation sector. Controlling the growth in these emissions will be an important part of reducing emissions from …
The Review of Developments in Transport in Asia and the Pacific is a biennial publication of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The Review is structured into three main parts. Part I describes the environment within which the transport sector is developing and …
Ottawa: The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert has claimed. Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which can reach up to 80m thick, have for centuries blocked the path of …
The aviation and shipping sectors would be included in global carbon-cutting measures for the first time under a European Union proposal to be tabled at December
Aviation and shipping should cut their respective carbon dioxide emissions to 10 and 20 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade, the European Union is likely to propose at global climate talks this week. EU diplomats said the cuts might be linked to a tax on fuel to generate …
A team of experts from the shipping ministry is reaching Paradip port on Saturday to inspect Black Rose, a Mongolian ship that sank about 1.6 miles off the coast on September 9 with 924 tonnes of furnace oil and 48 tonnes of diesel. The decision to dispatch the team was …
A global trading scheme is the most effective means of cutting carbon emissions in the shipping sector, five shipping industry associations said in a study on Wednesday. Shipping and aviation are the only industry sectors not regulated under the Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets for greenhouse gas emissions by rich …
Natural Product Antifoulants (NPAs) have been proposed as one of the best replacement options for the most successful antifouling agent, tri-n-butyl tin (TBT), which, due to its ecological incompatibility, is currently facing total global ban imposed by International Maritime Organization (IMO). Realizing the importance, commercial and industrial, of immediately finding …
