A small group of protesters from Greenpeace have hung up the operations of the deep-sea mining research vessel Coco, prompting the vessel's charterer to file a lawsuit seeking an injunction, the activist group said Tuesday. 

Three senior appointments by Campbell Johnston Clark (CJC) have reinforced the international maritime law firm’s strategy to grow both its litigation and transactional activities. All three individuals join CJC’s London office from another maritime law firm.
 

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC James offloaded nearly $450 million worth of seized cocaine onto a secure pier at Port Everglades - not to supply Miami's partygoers, but to destroy it. 

A year from now, all vessels subject to the Ballast Water Management Convention must have an approved ballast water treatment system installed onboard. Is your ship ready for tighter regulations?

Philippine police and the Philippine Coast Guard seized a shipment of more than 300 kilos of methamphetamine at the port of Manila last week, striking a $38 million blow against smugglers. 

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Company Limited (“CSSC”) regarding two luxury roll-on/roll-off passenger (“RoPax”) ferries, the Moby Fantasy and Moby Legacy, with Italian operator Moby S.p.A. (“Moby”). The vessels were built by China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International and are currently the world’s largest luxury RoPax ships. Moby Fantasy was delivered in early May 2023 and Moby Legacy will be delivered in late 2023.

Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) said it has adopted new regulations allowing it to reduce the loading speeds of oil tankers in its marine terminal at times of changing weather conditions to minimize air pollution.

In 2011 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) established rules for new-build vessels to reduce the amount of CO2 generated from shipping called the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI).  In 2023, new IMO regulations created the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) to assess efficiency of existing vessels.  In addition to the IMO regulations, in 2021 the European Commission (EC) adopted a set of proposals called Fit for 55 with the aim of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the year 2030.  IMO 2023 and Fit for 55 are aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry through increasing the efficiency of vessels.  While these regulations are essential for environmental sustainability, they will also have significant impacts on Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity in the Maritime industry.

On 18 April 2023, the European Parliament voted in favour of the legislative amendments published on 8 February 2023 to the EU Emissions Trading Directive (the “Amendment”) to include the maritime sector in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (“EU ETS”)

An analysis of the maritime insecurity situation revealed the Gulf of Guinea region is deficient in coordinated and collaborated maritime law enforcement capabilities and capacity at national, zonal and regional levels