Curtas do Lloyd´s List

Reshuffle - Hoon named new UK Transport Secretary - Por Martyn Wingrove -
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has formed a new department covering energy and climate change in a cabinet reshuffle that sees Geoff Hoon take control of British transport. - 

Editorial: Recipe for Copenhagen
This week’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee must rank as one of the most important for years. With an agenda which will take in air emissions, climate change, water ballast and ship recycling, it would be wrong to suggest that one item is more important than any other. - Isso já devia ter sido feito há algum tempo, a Agend ado MEPC está sobrecarregada, mais uma vez.

Editorial: Time for adoption
Whatever the other outcomes of MEPC, crucial to the procedings is that the agreement struck at the last meeting to revise Marpol Annex VI is adopted officially. -

UK Navy can arrest but not prosecute pirates - Por Neville Smith
The UK Royal Navy does have the power to hold pirates under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea but must work with local law enforcement and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office for their subsequent prosecution, defence sources have said. -

Shipping ‘shooting in the dark’ over CO2 - Por Neville Smith -
This week’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting at the International Maritime Organization can deliver progress on managing shipping’s contribution to carbon dixoide emissions and must also adopt the controversial changes to Marpol Annex VI agreed at its last meeting.