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Law firm Clyde & Co has appointed Stefanie Johnston as a Glasgow-based Partner in its global marine and insurance teams.

Following the French government’s calls for an EU tax on bunker and aviation fuel to help combat carbon emissions, the Environment Defense Fund (EDF) tells Bunkerspot that a ‘carbon price’ could generate revenues for research into clean energy technology and help shipping 'regain the green moral high ground’.

The Off-specification fuel quality report from Lloyd’s Register FOBAS for the first two weeks of October identified 102 instances where a result was outside the 95% confidence limit of the ISO 8217 test parameter or a value given by the BDN or sample label.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps yesterday (15 October) introduced the UK’s first Transport Decarbonisation Plan, which the Department for Transport described as ‘a bold and ambitious programme of coordinated action needed to end the UK’s transport emissions by 2050’.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) tabled a proposal to form and lead a Port Authorities Chief Information Officer (CIO) Cybersecurity Network (PACC-Net) at the Port Authorities Roundtable (PAR) 2019, which is taking place this week in Kobe, Japan.

Announcing its membership of the industry coalition which supports the robust enforcement of shipping’s sulphur regulations, Hudson Shipping Lines also highlighted its support of a ban on the use of scrubbers.

China’s Sinopec is reportedly looking to cut run rates at its refineries because of the surge in costs of transporting crude oil.

The French government has called on the European Union to work on creating a tax on bunker and aviation fuel as part of its strategy for reducing carbon emissions.

The AIDAcosma will operate from Kiel to the Norwegian fjords and the Baltic Sea from mid-2021. 

With the establishment of Gazpromneft Marine Lubricants, the company is seeking to build a 4% market share in the international marine lubricants market by 2030.