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The UK Department for Transport and the ORE Catapult have revealed a plan to have zero emissions vessels working on North Sea offshore wind farms by 2025. 

Transport Day at COP26 started with the launch of Clydebank Declaration, which aims to support the establishment of zero-emission maritime routes.

During COP26, 77 countries pledged to phase out coal, as carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere has rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels.

The world’s most climate vulnerable countries (CVF) from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, have signed the ‘Dhaka-Glasgow Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum’, calling the IMO to set a greenhouse gas levy on shipping.

A total of 14 countries have signed a declaration during COP26, urging the IMO to take immediate action in order to achieve zero emission shipping by 2050.

FONASBA launched a declaration to encourage the ship broking agency sector to take action and support the overall aims of reducing emissions.

Support for eradicating piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is gaining strength both in Asia and world-wide. Now, organisations including Japan’s NYK Line and the Asian Shipowners’ Association are among the latest to join in the call for action.

The Panama Maritime Authority has provided its support to national and international actions aimed at the well-being of seafarers, valuing and assuming that they are “Essential Workers”.

The International Marine Contractors Association has become a signatory to the ‘Gulf of Guinea Declaration on the Suppression of Piracy’.

Steadily increasing support for the Gulf of Guinea Declaration raises hope that efforts are on the right track to end piracy in the region.