As the first global carbon price mechanism of any kind, the IMO Net Zero Framework's "economic measures" system has had its critics, and has attracted particular scrutiny from the Trump administration.
Cyber risk stopped being an IT question in January 2021. It became an ISM Code question, which means it is audited by the same people, on the same cycle, with the same consequences as a fire drill record. Most companies still answer it as though it were about software. By MarineCraft Journal … Read more
An Inventory of Hazardous Materials is not a certificate you obtain and file. Part I is a living record of what is physically in the ship, and it has to survive twenty years of repairs, retrofits and equipment swaps before anyone reaches a recycling yard. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 September 2026 … Read more
?To date, IMO has verified 80 attacks on merchant vessels in the and around the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in at least 22 deaths of seafarers. The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, Mr.
Holding the certificate no longer settles the question. Since D-2 became mandatory for every ship in scope, inspectors have moved from verifying documents to sampling what actually leaves the ship, and the findings that follow are rarely about the treatment plant. By MarineCraft Journal · 18 September 2026 · 8 mins read … Read more
(Article originally published in July/Aug 2026 edition.) Carleen Lyden Walker is one of the best-known figures in maritime – founder of her own marketing business, co-founder of NAMEPA, former IMO Maritime Ambassador, Chief Evolution Officer of SHIPPINGInsight and a fierce…
