Tag: reports

ABS highlights the key topics championed by the IMO to improve the safety, efficiency and technological leadership of the maritime industry.

On its latest weekly report, GMS finds that, as they progressively approach Diwali holidays - inflation, fundamentals, currencies (except in India), vessel pricing, and overall weakening sentiments certainly seem to have beset across all of the sub-continent ship-recycling destinations (even Turkey to an extent).

According to UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2023,  as of January 2023, the world fleet consisted of 105,493 vessels of 100 gross tons and above.

The Baltic Sea is facing increasing challenges due to climate change and biodiversity degradation driven by eutrophication, pollution, land use, and resource extraction, according to a report published by the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM).

A new study by The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates that the EU needs to triple or quadruple its installed shore power by 2030 to meet regulatory targets. 

World Bank has published a new report Commodity Markets Outlook, in which it discusses that, although the global economy is in a much better position than it was in the 1970s to cope with a major oil-price shock, an escalation of the latest conflict in the Middle East, could push global commodity markets into uncharted waters.

The Mission to Seafarers published the findings of its Q3 2023 Seafarers Happiness Index report. The data from Q3 2023 show a significant drop in overall happiness to 6.66/10, down from 6.71/10 in Q2, and 7.1/10 in Q1.

The World Bank and IAPH have released a report  that offers port communities a step-by-step guide to implementing a Port Community System (PSC) and explains its advantages for developing countries.

EMSA has published its Annual Overview of Marine Casualties and Incidents 2023, which presents statistics on marine casualties and incidents that cover the period from 1st of January 2014 to 31st of December 2022, reported by the EU Member States. 

Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions and fragile energy markets, the latest edition of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook, explores how structural shifts in economies and in energy use are shifting the way that the world meets rising demand for energy.