
The EU Ship Recycling Regulation (SRR), in place since 2018, has largely met its objectives, but its further progress hinges on responsible practices of shipowners, a ‘considerable’ number of whom have “actively undermined” the guideline’s success, a new evaluation by the European Commission argues.

Dutch shipbuilder Thecla Bodewes Shipyards has laid the keel for the first diesel-electric multi-purpose dry cargo vessel ordered by Norway-based company Navigare Shipping & Logistics.