Declan Bush
Multimedia Editor
Former Lloyd’s List sustainability editor Declan re-joined us in August 2023 as multimedia editor, overseeing our daily news and other digital output. Between his Lloyd’s List tours of duty, Declan covered distressed debt as a reporter with Reorg, an industry-leading financial newswire. He has also written for legal trade press and, before that, newspapers in his native Western Australia. When not checking the news, Declan plays guitar in London's blues music scene and buys more books than will ever have time to read.
Latest From Declan Bush
Nuclear lobby asks IMO for fair hearing on safety
Companies backing nuclear shipping defended the technology’s safety record and asked the International Maritime Organization for a level playing field with other future fuels
IMO to condemn Red Sea crisis, again
The Red Sea crisis is the main worry at this week’s Maritime Safety Committee, but the forum’s powers to change it are few. States raised worries the MSC is overstretched, with work piling up on autonomous ships, green fuel safety and other matters
Nitrous oxide emissions are no laughing matter
More data is needed on how much N2O, also known as laughing gas, will be emitted from ships burning ammonia as fuel
IMO divided on how to tackle fraudulent ship registries
Fake flag registries are a risk to lives, the environment and shipping’s reputation, but IMO member states are still unsure of how to deal with them
Recruitment fraud traps seafarers in ‘disturbing situation’
The International Maritime Organization has condemned illegal and fraudulent recruitment of seafarers and said more work is needed to crack down on the problem
Detained Rostock ship raises knotty sanctions questions
The detained Atlantic Navigator II shows what happens when sanctions clash