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Articles for May 2020
Systems must target cyber criminal endgame
Raised awareness is valuable but enforced procedures will be decisive in the battle against maritime cyber crime. Inmarsat’s Peter Broadhurst says there must be a change in shipboard cyber security culture
West Africa maritime security update
Brett Hosking, of The Standard Club, considers the current maritime security position off west Africa amid concerns about the deteriorating situation in the region
Rules to extend reach of Dutch ship arrest
Haco van der Houven van Oordt, at AKD, reviews a key change in rules to extend the Dutch courts’ rights on ship arrest
Managing a charterparty through the Covid-19 pandemic
Now, James Mackay, of The Swedish Club, gives a P&I Club perspective on the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on charterparties
Could coronavirus derail shipping’s decarbonisation agenda?
Is zero carbon shipping on the back burner, or could the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic actually help to drive decarbonisation as governments consider stimulus packages and investments to rebuild economic growth, re-setting the carbon trajectory in the process? Richard Meade, of Lloyd’s List, investigates
In a global crisis connectivity is king
Nabil Ben Soussia, at IEC Telecom, discusses the way in which the Covid-19 pandemic is changing the nature of our communications – at sea as well as on land
Planning to support seafarers during coronavirus
Javed Ali and Sarah Barnes, of Hill Dickinson, highlight some key points to assist shipowners in protecting their seafarers’ mental health during the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic
Some Covid-19 questions answered
Andrew Taylor, of the UK P&I Club, answers some of the frequent questions on coping with Covid-19
Pollution numbers down for 2019
The International Salvage Union has just produced its annual salvage figures, showing a decrease in the volume of potential pollutant, as we report
Steering through the Covid-19 pandemic
Sally-Ann Underhill and Nick Austin, of Reed Smith, provide some advice to the most common problems facing the shipping sector as it navigates the coronavirus crisis