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The Sustainable Shipping Initiative has announced The Mission to Seafarers as its newest member, highlighting the importance of seafarers and seafarers’ rights and welfare in building a sustainable maritime industry.

The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), published "The Delivering on Seafarers’ Rights 2023 Progress Report", which presents how the situation has changed in the past twelve months and how the Code of Conduct has assisted companies in their due diligence work.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) has launched its State of Sustainable Shipping (SoSS) programme, which builds on the Roadmap to a Sustainable Shipping Industry. 

SSI has recently become a member of the OCX Consortium, a collaborative effort aimed at establishing a universal standard for the digital exchange of vessel design data.

A new report "Tides of Change: A Framework for Developing Just and Inclusive Maritime Green Corridors" co-created by the UN Global Compact, the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, and the Sustainable Shipping Initiative outlines the necessary considerations and actions required from companies and governments involved in establishing green shipping corridors around the world.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) has published the Green steel and shipping report. Steel is the primary shipbuilding material, making over 75% of a vessel by weight, and the steel industry is responsible for 7-9% of global GHG emissions.

During the 2023 GREEN4SEA Athens Forum, Mr. Andrew Stephens, Executive Director, Sustainable Shipping Initiative, highlighted that shipping needs sustainable decarbonisation that takes into consideration the different externalities created in the development of new fuels and technologies.

The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) have published a study on Seafarers and Recruitment Fees, which surveyed almost 5,000 seafarers.

Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) announced today that it has become the latest shipowner to join the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI). KCC becomes part of a growing community of leaders across the shipping ecosystem working together to catalyse progress toward a sustainable maritime sector.

Swire Bulk becomes the latest member of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), joining ambitious organisations across the maritime ecosystem in working towards a more environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable shipping sector.