Global shipping charts a sustainability route

Clean and compliant.

Make no mistake, these two words will dictate the economic health of the world’s shipping industry in the next two months. This is significant; the sector transports 90 per cent of the world’s trade, including energy. So, everyone should be watching the calendar.

It is a mere 20 odd days — a blink in an economic eye — until the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) ruling that bunker fuels from January 1, 2020 must be 0.5 per cent sulphur, down from today’s…