An International Maritime Organization drive to develop technical measures to reduce marine noise pollution has raised concerns that it could damage the regulator's decarbonisation efforts.
Work on the noise pollution programme will get underway at the IMO's upcoming ship design and construction meeting this month.
The gathering is looking at ways of advancing, and encouraging compliance with, a set of noise pollution guidelines set out in 2014, which the IMO wants to start upgrading in 2023.
