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International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Publications launches the sixth edition of Shipping and the Environment: A Guide to Environmental Compliance, offering an expanded and accessible overview of how shipping relates to environmental protection and global regulation.
By explaining the relationship between shipping and the environment, this guide helps crew and shoreside staff understand not only what environmental requirements are in place but why these regulations matter.
As businesses diversify supply chains and governments pursue new trade agreements, global commerce is becoming more distributed, impacting shipping routes, cargo flows and emerging trade corridors.
This month, the International Chamber of Shipping welcomes its new Chairman, John Denholm CBE. He speaks with ICS Leadership Insights to discuss his main priorities, important shifts in the maritime industry, decarbonisation, and attracting the next generation of seafarers.
The Seafarer Workforce Report 2026 from BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) launched on Thursday forecasts that given the growing demand for STCW certified officers, there will be a need for an additional 113,735 officers by 2030 to operate the world merchant fleet.
Alongside the Day of the Seafarer and the 20th Anniversary of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), the International Chamber of Shipping has outlined ten key policy focus areas to highlight to decision-makers in order to recognise seafarers as an essential component to socio-economic global stability.
Alongside the Day of the Seafarer and the 20th Anniversary of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), the International Chamber of Shipping has outlined ten key policy focus areas to highlight to decision-makers in order to recognise seafarers as an essential component to socio-economic global stability.
Global trade, energy security, food supply, and crisis resilience depend highly on shipping. About 90% of world trade is transported by sea, supported by a workforce of over 2.5 million seafarers on up to 74,000 vessels. Without shipping, national economies and societies cannot function, let alone thrive. Seafarers are key workers who underpin national prosperity and global stability by facilitating the movement of over 12 billion tons of cargo and well over 30 million ocean-going passengers annually. Yet their role remains largely invisible in political decision-making outside maritime ministries.
ICS issues a statement on the Oman Notice to Mariners and International Maritime Organization’s Evacuation Plan.
Extracted from the full Seafarer Workforce Report 2026, this Executive Summary provides the key findings of the global seafarer workforce supply and demand situation.