International Maritime Organisation Archives

January 14, 2020

EDITORIAL | Fatal ferry accidents – Some improvers, some backsliders

Written by Neil Baird on January 14, 2020. Posted in Passenger Vessel World, Work Boat World Features.

Since I compiled my major study of fatal ferry accidents covering the period 1966 to 2015, there have been some significant changes in the order of the most dangerous ..

October 18, 2019

COLUMN | Scrubbed out [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on October 18, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Offshore World, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

“Nobody fits an open loop scrubber on their ship to clean the environment”. These are the words of legendary US based Norwegian ship financier, Morten Arntzen. Morten ..

September 12, 2019

FEATURE | Shipping associations look to the future

Written by Baird Maritime on September 12, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Port World, Ship World, Ship World Features, Tanker World.

Major shipping industry trade associations BIMCO, ICS, Intercargo and Intertanko met in London yesterday to consider the transformational issues affecting the sector. Top ..

November 28, 2019

EDITORIAL | China leads the way in ferry safety activity

Written by Neil Baird on November 28, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Passenger Vessels, Commercial Mariner - Passenger Vessels, Ferries, Passenger Vessel World, Search and Rescue, Work Boat World Features.

In mid-November I was delighted to be able to represent Interferry, the international association of ferry owners, at the third ASEAN Regional Forum Workshop on Ferry ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK

October 1, 2019

OPINION | Buoyant ferry industry sets course for further progress

Written by Mike Corrigan on October 1, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Passenger Vessels, Ferries, Ro-Pax World, Work Boat World Features.

Happily for the ferry industry, Baird Maritime’s Passenger Vessel Week coincides with a notably positive period in our always-challenging sector of shipping. I feel we ..

August 6, 2019

EDITORIAL | Despite IMO disinterest, ferry safety consciousness improves

Written by Neil Baird on August 6, 2019. Posted in Ferries.

Eleven months ago, returning from twice addressing the International Maritime Organisation’s III Meeting in London, I was quite depressed. My hope in addressing IMO had ..

October 30, 2019

EEDI status quo for Ro-Ro/Ro-Pax vessels

Written by Baird Maritime on October 30, 2019. Posted in Ro-Pax World, Ro-Ro World.

The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) will uphold previously agreed sector-specific Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) targets for Ro-Pax and Ro-Ro ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK

September 30, 2019

EDITORIAL | The passenger vessel market is thriving and vessel quality fast improving

Written by Neil Baird on September 30, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Passenger Vessels, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Passenger Vessels, Passenger Vessel World, Work Boat World Features.

During the past twelve months I have, despite being supposedly “semi-retired”, travelled on countless ferries and tourist vessels of all shapes, sizes and conditions ..

July 24, 2019

EDITORIAL | Justice prevails in latest Estonia litigation

Written by Neil Baird on July 24, 2019. Posted in Ro-Pax World.

Unbelievably, almost exactly twenty-five years since the Estonian flagged Ro-Pax ferry Estonia sank in a Baltic storm, some members of the legal profession have ..