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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.
ICSfully supports the submission made by Shipping Australia Limited in support of the maintenance of Part X of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Act (CCA). ICS agrees that the current regulatory environment in Australiaencourages container lines to competerobustly in terms of the quality of service that they provideand that the current approach,which has continued to be applied since the last major review of Part X in 2005,does not inhibit competition.
In advance of next week’s meeting of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has suggested a number of steps by which IMO Member States might address implementation problems associated with the Ballast Water Management Convention, which has yet to enter into force.
The Liner Shipping Industry Supports the Commission’s Proposed Extension of Commission Regulation (EC) No 906/2009
The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), which starts on 31 March, will seek to make progress on the development of a global system of monitoring and reporting of CO2 emissions from ships. This is supported by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) which has made a detailed submission on the issue to the MEPC meeting on behalf of its member national shipowners’ associations.
Submitted by International Chamber of Shipping, International Group of P&I Clubs, International Union of Marine Insurance, and International Salvors’ Union, Legal Committee, 101st Session, Agenda Item 11, April 2014.
Submitted by International Group of P&I Clubs, ICS and CLIA, Legal Committee, 101st Session, Agenda Item 8, April 2014.
Submitted by IACS, Intercargo, BIMCO and ICS, Editorial and Technical Group of the Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers, 1st Session, Agenda Item 5, March 2014.