Tag: regulations

April 13, 2023

The recent meeting of the RINA Hellenic Technical Committee (HTC) bought stakeholders from all parts of the shipping industry together to discuss the impact of new regulations (CII), the way forward for decarbonisation, and the latest developments in digital tools […]

June 18, 2021

The regulations that support the process of decarbonizing the shipping industry will do far more than reduce carbon dioxide emissions; they will create unprecedented transparency on which are the most efficient and which the least efficient vessels. With the focus […]

May 22, 2020

The information was collected via the users of the Chamber’s ISF Watchkeeper software, which tracks over 25 million hours of work on board ships undertaken each month by seafarers. The statistics are drawn from the online version of the software […]

February 18, 2019

San Diego Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer released a set of proposed regulations for dockless scooters and bicycles to address public safety concerns by slowing the devices down in heavily-trafficked public spaces, establish clear rules of the road to hold operators […]

September 28, 2017

Two key senators announced late Wednesday that they have reached a bipartisan agreement which that remove some regulations making it harder to get self-driving cars on roads. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Gary Peter (D-Mich.) said […]

June 30, 2017

AS THE JET FUMES BURN: The Senate Commerce Committee marks up its FAA reauthorization bill (S. 1405) Thursday morning, hours before lawmakers skip town and board flights home for the July Fourth recess. For that reason (and the way the […]

November 30, 2016

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced that its board has approved an amendment to its FY2016-FY2020 Capital Improvement Plan to include $75 million in funding for the Red Line Extension (RLE) project, a plan to extend […]

September 7, 2016

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is considering a 60 mile per hour speed limit for trucks that it estimates could save as many as 500 lives each year. The Transportation Department on Tuesday proposed requiring commercial motor vehicles to install speed-limiting […]

September 6, 2016

Commercial flights to Cuba resumed for the first time in 50 years this week, but don’t expect a flood of legislative changes to follow. Proponents of further loosening travel restrictions on Cuba had hoped that the resumption of air service […]

August 31, 2016

Truck and bus tires from China were being dumped in the United States at below-market prices, a potential step toward the imposition of duties, the Commerce Department announced Aug. 29. In a preliminary determination, the department said the tires were […]