COVID-19: A year on
Shipping has proven resilient through the pandemic but challenges of crew change and vaccine passports continue
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Shipping has proven resilient through the pandemic but challenges of crew change and vaccine passports continue
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the China Maritime Safety Administration (China MSA) met virtually to push forward collaboration on key challenges facing maritime, including GHG and COVID-19.
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Shipping leaders must continually address cyber risks that are unique to their organisations and operating environments.
Is shipping sufficiently resilient to cyber risks?
This approval procedure sets minimum requirements for approval of cleaning companies for various types of operations.
This industry standard helps to ensure that the in-water cleaning of a ship's hull, and niche areas including the propeller, can be carried out safely, efficiently and in an environmentally sustainable way.
The International Chamber of Shipping is leading calls for governments to put seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers at the head of the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as keyworkers, to avoid a repeat of the 2020 ‘crew change crisis’.
To ensure that the very best guidance is available for the chemical tanker sector, ICS has launched a new edition of the standard reference work for those working on tankers carrying chemical cargoes, the ICS Tanker Safety Guide (Chemicals).
This fifth edition was withdrawn in April 2026 and replaced by the sixth edition. The ICS Tanker Safety Guide (Chemicals) is the standard reference work for chemical tankers. The fifth edition contains valuable new guidance on key safety issues and operations, and provides new and improved ship/shore safety checklists.