Shipping
IFSC panel roots for competitive ship leasing facility in India
06 Dec 2021
India has a merchant fleet of 1,491 seagoing ships with total capacity of 13 million GT and ranks 18th in terms of flag of registration by dead weight tonnage and 19th by carrying capacity, but accounts for just about 1.3 per cent of the total global dead weight tonnage
Yara launches world’s first fully emission-free container ship
22 Nov 2021
The fully electric and self-propelled container ship will cut 1,000 tonnes of CO2 and replace 40,000 trips by diesel-powered trucks a year
Shaping the post-pandemic economy, a global perspective
21 Jan 2021
Apart from aggravating the problem of inequalities among nations the pandemic is creating joblessness within countries and since global policies cannot be tailored to suit the requirements of all individual countries, there cannot be any guarantee that the IMF, or any international institution for that matter, would be able to help bring about a job-lead economic recovery