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ICS disappointed: “CII Resolution unsupported by Member states”

News27 Mar 2024

ICS is disappointed to see that the proposed resolution clarifying the current status of the CII rating system did not receive support from ...

News21 Feb 2024

The attack on the UK-registered and Belize-flagged general cargo ship RUBYMAR on 18 February reveals that the crisis in the Red Sea is far f...

News10 Oct 2023

The London-headquartered International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the global trade association whose membership of shipowners controls appro...

News9 Feb 2018

New Secretary General for ICS; PEMA Board changes; Mark Carne to step down from Network Rail...

News9 Jan 2017

Including international shipping in European system could undermine global efforts to cut GHGE, says IMO secretary-general Kitack Lim...

News4 Jun 2016

Latest round up of appointments known to WorldCargo News in the shipping, ports and allied industry sectors...

News10 Feb 2016

The Port of Felixstowe has confirmed that it will offer a container weighing service to ensure UK shippers are able to comply with the new S...

News20 Apr 2015

The Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, Masamichi Morooka, has warned about the dangers of regional maritime regulation being...

News7 Jul 2014

This alliance of shipping lines is aimed at ensuring robust enforcement of SECA bunker regulations...

News10 Apr 2013

Following its post-DSC/17 workshop in London last October, ICHCA will convene another one on 16 April, which it says will be the last opport...

News1 Mar 2013

As a matter of iron logic, if progress is to be made on mandatory, pre-shipment container weighing, port operators have to be involved....

News21 Apr 2012

Incidents off the Horn of Africa get the most attention, but pirate attacks are a growing menace off the Atlantic coastline...

News1 May 2011

The Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed to a proposal from the Netherlands, Denmark and Au...

News1 Feb 2011

A number of systems and applications are available to terminal operators as shipping lines call for mandatory weighing....

News8 Dec 2010

Two shipowner organisations have called for mandatory weighing of containers before they are loaded on board...