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Proposals to protect the world’s oceans have been welcomed by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the principal trade association for merchant shipowners. ICS recommends that the Global Ocean Commission’s (GOC) ideas should be taken seriously.
Submitted by ICS, BIMCO, CLIA, IMCA, INTERCARGO, INTERFERRY, InterManager, INTERTANKO, IPTA, ITF, IUMI, the Nautical Institute and WSC, Marine Environment Protection Committee, 67th Session, Agenda Item 2, June 2014.
Call for Shipping Industry to Anticipate Climate Change Impacts At a major conference today (18 June) in Liverpool, United Kingdom, hosted by the renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Peter Hinchliffe, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), gave the keynote speech explaining the shipping industry’s commitment to reducing its CO2 emissions.
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) – the principal global trade association for shipowners representing over 80% of the world merchant fleet – met in Limassol, Cyprus last week for its Annual General Meeting (AGM). The meeting was hosted by the Cyprus Shipping Chamber in its 25th anniversary year, and commenced with a gala dinner hosted by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, His Excellency Nicos Anastasiades, at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia.
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published its latest Annual Review of maritime policy and regulatory developments in advance of its Annual General Meeting.
Submitted ICS, Sub-Committee on Implementation on IMO Instruments, 1st Session, Agenda Item 8, May 2014.
Submitted by Japan, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Panama, ICS, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO, InterManager, IPTA and WSC, Sub-Committee on Implementation on IMO Instruments, 1st Session, Agenda Item 8, May 2014.
The global shipping industry - represented by the International chamber of Shipping (ICS), BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko, World Shipping Council (WSC), CLIA and IPTA - has voiced continuing concern about serious implementation problems associated with the IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention.
Shipowners and seafarers' unions have joined forces to express concern at flag states’ failure to submit maritime casualty reports as required under international Conventions.
Governments, maritime employer representatives co-ordinated by the International Shipping Federation (ISF) and their counterparts from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) met this week at the International Labour Organization in Geneva for the first meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) established under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). During the meeting agreement was reached for amendments to the Convention to ensure the provision of financial security systems to assist seafarers in the event of their abandonment and for compensation for seafarers’ contractual claims for death and personal injury.