Best to make friends not enemies at the IMO

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Here’s some welcome Devil’s advocacy from shipping newspaper Tradewinds, which advises the recently vociferous Republic of the Marshall Islands, which has been telling anyone who would listen – and that includes The Loadstar – that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its secretary general Koji Sekimizu have been dragging their feet over shipping greenhouse gas emission targets, labelling him a “danger to the planet”, that the country might be better off using a few more carrots and a bit less ...