Today’s Top Supply Chain and Logistics News From WSJ
Tougher new environmental rules are set to hit the shipping industry. The world’s leading maritime nations are leaning toward setting rules to cut the sulfur in oceangoing vessels’ fuel by more than 85% in four years. The International Maritime Organization, the United Nations’ shipping regulator, begins meetings in London today on the emissions rule, and the WSJ’s Costas Paris and Nicole Friedman report they’ll decide whether to require the change as early as 2020 or push out the deadline by five years.