Tag: SSI

SSI calls on IMO and member states to show urgent leadership to ensure shipping industry contributes to global below 2-degrees warming targets in line with Paris Agreement. The announcement comes ahead the forthcoming MEPC 70.

The SSI has welcomed the recent ratification of the BWM Convention saying that it is a step in the right direction.

SSI has announced it has developed the concept of a ‘Seafarers' On-board Charter’ – a best practice charter that can be adopted by ship owners and operators to further enhance the welfare of seafarers beyond the mandatory standards of MLC. The announcement coincides with the IMO Day of the Seafarer on 25th June 2016

Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) mentions that the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) recent Marine Environmental Protection Committee meeting (MEPC 69) has failed to achieve the required minimum outcome.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative has called on IMO to show its true intent to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions from shipping at the forthcoming MEPC 69, which begins on 18th April 2016.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (“SSI”) has signed a Declaration to tackle global wildlife trafficking routes. The Declaration was unveiled by The Duke of Cambridge, President of United for Wildlife, and is the culmination of 12 months of work to develop a plan, led by the transport sector, to crack down on illegal wildlife trafficking routes.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative is holding its second roundtable with key industry stakeholders to discuss the challenges and barriers to achieving sustainable ship recycling, and how they can be overcome. Improving the health, safety and environmental standards associated with ship recycling is a key SSI work stream, and an important element of the SSI’s recently launched Roadmap, which charts the key milestones which must be met to create a sustainable shipping industry by 2040.

SSI members and key industry stakeholders worked together to define tangible milestones across all areas of sustainability that must be collectively delivered by the industry to meet the SSI’s 2040 Vision

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative highlights key areas of positive development within the shipping industry, as well as the challenges to come, as it launches its Progress Report to the end of 2015.

SSI says that MEPC 69 is crucial landmark for IMO to demonstrate commitment to CO2 reduction