Like other international shipping service providers, any Maltese Shipping Agent will welcome the increase in the number of cruise ships that will be powered by LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas). Some relief from carbon emissions will already be noted from January 2020 when the IMO low...
Continue ReadingTwo years after IMO2016 established the 2020 sulphur cap for ships` bunkers to 0.3% - 0.5% from the previous high of 3.5%, the organisation set an even more ambitious target for 2050: to halve vessels` carbon emissions to meet the deadlines of the Paris Agreement. ...
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The impending entry into force of IMO`s MARPOL ANNEX VI regulations in January 2020 has proved to be a windfall for ship repair yards. In 2016, IMO, the International Maritime Organisation established an emission cap for ships burning HFO - heavy fuel oil, to mitigate...
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Karl Gollcher (left) has presented a copy of the book ‘Connecting the Harbour Towns’ to Caroline Tonna, curator of Palazzo Falson at Mdina. The book, which was written by Michael Cassar (right), was sponsored by the Gollcher Group of Companies as part of events being...
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Gollcher Shipping Agent recently handled the 80 year-old Romanian Naval Academy sail training ship MIRCEA. The ship was retracing its original voyage from Hamburg where she was built in 1939 to Constanta. The three-masted barque is one of a quintet built by Blohm &Voss, Hamburg....
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