Lloyd’s Register (LR) has been awarded the status of a Notified Body by the Italian Ministry for Infrastructures, with the authorisation to carry out certification activities for non-SOLAS Italian flagged ships. The authorisation follows the Recognised Organisation...

India’s Kerala state will proceed “no matter what” with a $900 million port project and is open to deploying federal police if needed to protect it from protesters blocking construction, a government minister told Reuters on Saturday. The local fishing community, led...

When the supertanker Young Yong sailed to the Chinese port of Qingdao in September last year, it had quality certificates for its cargo stating it was transporting Malaysian crude oil, according to the documents reviewed by Reuters. But satellite images and photos...