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Ahead of President Biden’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate, the world’s major shipping organisations have called on world leaders to urgently examine the role of market-based measures (MBMs) to ensure ambitious decarbonisation targets are met across the entire global shipping industry.
There is a need to harmonise the efforts of reducing shipping's negative impacts on marine biodiversity with the drive for decarbonisation. This special meeting of the BIMCO ESG Network will provide members with an opportunity to provide their input into the proposed development of an initiative coordinated by the SSI to evaluate shipping’s impact more broadly on ocean health - ensuring the project outcomes are both practicable and valuable for the industry.
MF Shipping's CEO and President of the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners sees continued collaborations within and outside shipping, and tackling broader diversity issues will help shipping weather the combined challenges of Ukraine and decarbonisation
On Tuesday 7 March, BIMCO hosted an opening reception, gathering industry relations, peers, and policy makers to celebrate the opening of our Brussels office. BIMCO’s presence in Brussels is inevitable at a time when the shipping industry works towards decarbonisation and EU regulations have significant impacts on the entire maritime industry and the environment.
Slower global growth and faster decarbonisation – since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global economy has suffered from increasing food and commodity prices leading to inflation, and increased interest rates.
BIMCO's Deputy Secretary General, Lars Robert Pedersen, will be a speaker at the conference.
Copenhagen/London/Washington, November 13, 2020 – As governments come together at the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) to consider important next steps to decarbonise maritime transport, the global shipping industry urgently calls on them to take forward its proposal for an industry-financed, USD 5 billion research and development programme, to catalyse the transformation of the industry from dependence on fossil fuels to operating with zero-carbon energy sources.
Niko Schües was a guest on Lloyd’s List Podcast, talking about decarbonisation and digitalisation.
Marie Münster, Professor of Management Engineering at DTU (Technical University of Denmark), presented the main findings of the MarE-Fuel project, where a number of scenarios were analysed. She also looks ahead to upcoming research.
During the first eight months of 2023, contracting of product tanker newbuilds hit a 10-year high, reaching 140 ships and 10.72 million deadweight tonnes (DWT). The last time more than 10 million DWT were contracted from January through August was in 2013.
