85 pct of world’s refiners have no plan for shipping fuel change – KBC

Just 15 percent of the world’s refineries know how they will manage tighter rules on the amount of sulphur...

Does a Shipowner Have to Sell Its Ship in Order to Mitigate Its Loss? Supreme Court Says No!

In our client alert Does a shipowner have to sell its ship in order to mitigate its loss? in November 2016,...

Malware Does Not Have To Affect Ships Or Facilities

This week the world saw the sudden spread of a new ransomware variant, called by some ‘Petya’ and by...

How to ensure you have a Ballast Water Treatment System onboard that actually works

The second half of 2016 brought shockwaves to some shipowners who were still in a state of denial about the...

Are you entitled to payment under your contract: have you dotted your ‘i’s and crossed your ‘t’s?

The general principles of contractual interpretation are easy to state, but the application of such principles...

OPEC Said to Have Discussed Deeper Cuts; No Consensus Reached

Ministers from some OPEC countries have discussed the possibility of deepening their output cuts, in addition to the potential extension of the agreement into 2018, said four delegates.

UNITE : ‘Only the people of Greece have suffered a bigger fall in living standards during austerity’, says Unite

Commenting on the latest jobless and earnings figures which again confirm that work in the UK is failing to pay, Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite the union said: ‘Only the people of Greece have suffered a bigger fall in living standards during th