The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published its 2016 Annual Review of maritime policy developments, in advance of the ICS Annual General Meeting, to be held in Tokyo from 1-3 June. This will be the final ICS AGM under the chairmanship of Masamichi Morooka (Japan), who will be stepping down after four years in office.
The ICS Annual Review is intended as a comprehensive overview of all the major issues faced by the global shipping industry, and in which ICS is engaged on behalf of its member national shipowners’ associations.
Key issues covered include:
- ICS efforts to deliver further CO2 emissions reductions from the sector in response to the Paris Agreement on climate change;
- the status of IMO environmental regulations on low sulphur fuel and ballast water management;
- the impact of the rescue at sea crisis in the Mediterranean, and
- the serious economic crisis currently confronting many shipping sectors and trades.
The ICS Annual Review also provides updates on the wide-ranging scope of ICS’s activities as the principal global trade association for shipowners including: safety and operations, labour affairs, manning and training, maritime law and insurance, and shipping and trade policy.
In his final introduction to the ICS Annual Review, ICS Chairman, Masamichi Morooka, observes:
“The authority of IMO continues to be challenged by unilateral rules, principally those emanating from the European Union and the United States. This is making the maintenance of an effective global regulatory framework increasingly complicated. The IMO global regime cannot and must not be taken for granted.”
Please click below to read ICS Annual Review 2016
Source: ICS
