International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)

Digitalisation: An arrow in shipping’s quiver or hackers’ ace in the hole?

Digitalisation in the maritime sector remains a double-edged sword, because while technology and digital tools support the supply chain significantly, these same tools have opened new vulnerabilities.

Competition in the digital arena is the reflex response from the shipping sector designed to compete at every level. The industry, however, must relearn its reactions to develop a collaborative mind-set when developing cyber systems, particularly where cybersecurity is concerned.

Increased...

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Ericsson’s 5G Network To Increase Safety & Sustainability

  • Trade represented more than 60 percent of the global gross domestic product.
  • Connected ports: A guide to make ports smarter with private cellular technology, outlines how challenges of equipment downtime, congested port yards for loading and unloading, worker safety, and environmental impact could be resolved with private cellular networks.
  • Ericsson collaborated with leading sensor technology provider, ifm electronic, as well as researchers from management consultancy Arthur D.
  • By year five,...

https://mfame.guru/ericssons-5g-network-to-increase-safety-sustainability/

Call To Prioritize Seafarers for Vaccination Getting Stronger

Malaysia’s seafarers will be given priority to receive the vaccination in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, reports MalayMail.

Continue to support after the vaccine

The Association of Malaysia’s Maritime Professionals (IKMAL) said seafarers who have been vaccinated would be able to return to serve onboard ships and continue to support the critical maritime transport supply chain.

Benefits from the move

IKMAL said the move could also reduce the travel restrictions...

https://mfame.guru/call-to-prioritize-seafarers-for-vaccination-getting-stronger/

BIMCO & ICS Release New Biofouling Benchmarks

Cleaning a ship’s submerged parts from barnacles and other growths, while the ship is in the water, can transfer invasive species to local marine environments unless it is properly cleaned and the debris is captured.

To combat this problem, and to provide clarity and quality assurance to shipowners, ports and government authorities, BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have published the first industry standard on in-water cleaning of ships.

Here’s a report on that. 

Protecting...

https://mfame.guru/bimco-ics-release-new-biofouling-benchmarks/

UK Urged To Exempt Seafarers From ‘Red List’ Travel Restrictions

Nautilus International and the International Chamber of Shipping urged UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to exempt seafarers from UK ‘red list’ travel restrictions, says an article published in Safety4Sea.

Exempt seafarers from quarantine 

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has imposed travel bans following the second wave of COVID-19 outbreak. 

Nautilus International and the International Chamber of Shipping jointly urged the UK Transport Secretary to exempt seafarers from quarantine when...

https://mfame.guru/uk-urged-to-exempt-seafarers-from-red-list-travel-restrictions/

G20 Business Body Chooses ICS As Official Network Partner

ICS selected by G20 business body as its official network partner to highlight the key role of shipping in global trade and the need to end the ‘crew change crisis’, says a press release published on their website. 

Network partner in B20

In an industry first, ICS selected as network partner for taskforces on trade, energy, and finance & infrastructure  to highlight the key role of shipping in global trade and the need to end ‘crew change crisis’. 

Move after virtual meet

This announcement comes as...

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ICS calls on governments to prioritise seafarers for Covid vaccination

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is leading calls for governments to prioritise seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers in the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as keyworkers, to avoid a repeat of the 2020 crew change crisis.

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Shipping organisations set stranded crew vaccination as a top priority

Shipping associations and carriers are concerned that the failure to deal with the current seafarer situation, leaving up to 400,000 crew stranded abord ships in some cases for over a year, could also lead to a failure to vaccinate crew in the coming months.

Crew change issues have dominated much of the industry’s Covid-19 response, with some limited success as some countries opened their borders to crew changes under strict rules. However, the international community’s failure to designate...

https://container-news.com/shipping-organisations-set-stranded-crew-vaccination-as-a-top-priority/

IMO MEPC 75 -76 Meeting To Discuss GHG, Maritime R&D Proposals

More than seven months late and a whole meeting cycle out of phase, Monday will finally see MEPC 75 start its week-long session, writes Paul Hinton for the Ship Insight and here’s what to look forward to. 

A Delayed Meeting

It was originally scheduled for end-March/early April so, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of ground to make up.

And even after this week’s gathering, IMO’s environmental programme will still be months behind: MEPC 76 should have taken place last month but in the...

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