Over the past decades, the debate around climate change and maritime pollution within the shipping industry has been mainly shaped around the need to cut down CO 2 emissions and turn to cleaner, more ...

Soon after it left the Port of Oakland, California, in February 2004, the shipping vessel Med Taipei hit a strong winter storm with violent 30-foot-high (9 meters) swells. Amid rolling waves, 15 ...

The resulting delays and extra costs for shipping companies have fueled concerns that consumers, still struggling after a prolonged spell of rampant inflation, could be hit with fresh price rises.