Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest travel and leisure company, today announced its 2020 sustainability goals, reinforcing its commitment to the environment, guests, employees and communities.

A new report designed to identify key areas of concern for women seafarers will be the centrepiece of a meeting on the health and wellbeing of women working at sea, to be held in London tomorrow.

China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) and China Shipping Group, two of the country’s largest shipping firms, said shares in their listed companies would remain suspended pending a complex matter under research that “may involve asset restructuring”.

Leading classification society Bureau Veritas is classing the first ethane-powered ship. JS Ineos Insight is the first of a series of eight 27,500 cu m multi-gas Dragon-class vessels being built at Sinopacific, China, for Denmark’s Evergas.

On a sunny day on the Helsinki seafront, sparks fly from steel welding at the bustling Arctech shipyard, which seems insulated from Finland’s economic recession as it strives to meet an order book that stretches into 2017.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos will join MEPs on the Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs and Human Rights committees on Tuesday to debate respect for human rights in the context of migration flows in the Mediterranean.

The recently implemented EU Offshore Safety Directive[1] is now mandatory and requires identification of major environmental incidents (MEI) and the associated safety and environmental critical elements (SECE).

The impact of the $200 billion shipping industry on Australia’s marine environment will be investigated in a groundbreaking project led by a multidisciplinary team of UOW researchers.