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OFSI’s new series, ‘Financial Sanctions: The Basics’, highlights 6 key areas in OFSI and financial sanctions more generally. The first video in OFSI’s ‘Financial Sanctions: The Basics’ series provides detail on the work carried out at OFSI and how financial sanctions work more generally. The second video in OFSI’s ‘Financial Sanctions: The Basics’ series provides an insight into the range of guidance that OFSI produces […]

The failure to address the environmental issues could turn into a vicious circle in which the falling Caspian Sea level starts to jeopardize the operations of the fossil fuel and shipping industries. Concern has been growing in recent years over the steadily declining level of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water. The water level dropped by about two meters from 2006 to 2024, […]

The EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is being expanded to cover shipping. But what does this involve and what does it mean for the maritime sector? What is the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)?The European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is one of the main tools with which the EU hopes to combat global heating and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cost […]

Highlights Abstract Ukraine is a key global producer and exporter of grain. In peacetime, over 70% of Ukraine’s grain production is exported, and over 90% of these exports go through Black Sea ports. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, and consequently the occupation, blockade, or destruction of these ports, has disrupted the maritime supply chains. In this paper we examine the difficulties experienced in attempts to […]

DMC/SandT/25/07 England THE OWNERS OF THE “X-PRESS MAHANADA” v THE OWNERS OF THE “BURGAN” English Admiralty Court: Cockerill J: [2025] EWHC 721 (Admlty): 26 March 2025 Judgment Available on BAILII @ https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admlty/2025/721.html Lionel Persey KC (instructed by Holman Fenwick Willan LLP) for the X-PRESS MAHANADA (the “XPM”) Nigel Jacobs KC (instructed by Stann Law Limited) for the BURGAN (the “BURGAN”) ADMIRALTY: COLLISION: APPLICATION OF RULE […]

Kazakhstan is the world’s largest exporter of uranium. Kazakhstan is party to 53 bilateral investment treaties, including with the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany and Japan and the multilateral Energy Charter Treaty. These give investors from counterpart countries the right to have their investments treated to a certain standard by Kazakhstan and to refer claims against Kazakhstan for breaches of those rights to binding arbitration. […]

By Carly Fields Over half of the global ship orderbook by gross tonnage comprises vessels capable of running on alternative fuels, but less than 10% of the existing global fleet can utilise these greener technologies, demonstrating the challenges in ‘going for green’. The Role of Shipbuilding in Maritime Decarbonisation: Impacts of Technology Developments and Policy Measures report from the OECD highlights a preference for “fuel […]

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the only UN agency where tripartite consensus is the procedure used to adopt any regulations relating to labour standards and policies. For the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 as amended (MLC), the tripartite consensus is required from these parties, namely, the national governments (GO), the seafarers’ group (SF) and the shipowners’ group (SO) as established by the Special Tripartite Committee […]

A decisive moment for global shipping regulation unfolded last week as the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) concluded its 83rd session, which culminated in the approval of draft amendments establishing the ‘IMO Net-Zero Framework’.  This global mechanism will combine mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) limits with carbon pricing for the maritime sector and represents a move towards achieving the goals laid out […]

The attached table [click here] sets out statistics for the number of appointments received, arbitrations run and awards published in recent years up to 2024. The LMAA is an arbitral association which facilitates ad hoc arbitration, as opposed to an arbitration institution which supervises and administers arbitration. The latter type of body commonly has access to a complete set of data in relation to arbitrations administered by it. […]