Trump team touts maritime ‘win’ in major bill as Elon Musk trashes its ‘pork’
Tesla chief executive urges Senate to ‘kill the bill’
Regulation
Norway’s top carbon negotiator defends IMO deal as shipping faces major fuel shift
‘You cannot put in the menu things that some have serious allergies to’, says Sveinung Oftedal
Union demands flag state reform as abandonments keep rising
Shipowners walk away without punishment with 2025 on course to outstrip last year’s ‘appalling’ record, says ITF
Shadow fleet dealings land flag state Comoros in sin bin
Comoros registry has expanded rapidly over the past year amid the merry-go-round of sanctions and flagging
Hoegh Autoliners to recycle up to eight ships in Norway
Billion-kroner scheme hopes to kick-start new upcycling industry
‘Shipping has an opportunity here’: John Kerry returns to Norway with decarbonisation pep talk
Donald Trump has not stopped the renewable energy shift, just changed the pace, he says
The $800,000-per-voyage question: Will shipping face combined IMO and EU carbon costs?
If applied together at currently planned level, EU regulations make up 62% of carbon costs on transatlantic route
New US ethane restrictions put strong export volumes to China ‘at risk’
Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department issues licensing requirements that include butane
‘Ripple effects’: How Trump’s steel tariff hike could hit dry bulk, ship recycling and the global economy
Most direct impact will be felt by supramax and handysize bulker market
‘Flagrant violations’: Millions of rounds of North Korean ammunition hauled by Russian-flagged ships
Group of 11 countries calls for greater scrutiny on rising flow of trade between two nations driven closer by war