WASHINGTON, March 24, 2025–The World Shipping Council (WSC) today expressed its support for the United States Trade Representative’s goal of building a vibrant U.S. maritime sector, while expressing its strong opposition to the proposed fee on port calls for Chinese-built vessels, and fleets that contain Chinese-built vessels or have vessels on order from China, saying it would aggravate inflation for U.S. consumers and businesses, threaten jobs, and have especially negative impacts on U.S....
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Strengthening the Fight Against Drug Trafficking with New Technology – WSC Technology Day brings authorities, carriers and innovators together
Brussels, Belgium, February 10, 2025 – The close collaboration between ocean carriers, customs authorities, law enforcement and regulators have led to successes in disrupting drug trafficking through containerized shipping. To build on this momentum, the World Shipping Council (WSC) convened its first-ever “Technology Day” at the World Customs Organization (WCO) headquarters in Brussels on January 30-31, 2025. This milestone event reinforced the deepening cooperation between industry...
Statement: John Butler, President & CEO of the World Shipping Council on the Senate Ocean Shipping Reform Act
Statement: John Butler, President & CEO of the World Shipping Council on the Senate Ocean Shipping Reform Act
Washington, February 4 – The World Shipping Council (WSC) notes that the Senate has now introduced its own bill, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, to amend the Shipping Act.
“Ocean carriers continue to work with all members of the supply chain, the Federal Maritime Commission, the administration, and their customers to identify and implement...
Supply chain partners in constructive dialogue to overcome logistics challenges
Supply chain partners in constructive dialogue to overcome logistics challenges
Brussels, 14 December 2021 – Shippers and carriers met yesterday to talk about the causes and effects of recent supply chain disruption coinciding with the COVID 19 pandemic. The meeting brought together a broad representation of members from the European Shippers Council (ECS) and the World Shipping Council (WSC) and the Secretariat of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA). This is the...
Cargo Integrity Group calls for risk-based measures to prevent pest contamination
Cargo Integrity Group calls for risk-based measures to prevent pest contamination
The international freight transport organisations of the Cargo Integrity Group are calling for urgent action from actors in global supply chains to reduce the risk of pest transference through international cargo movements.
The five partners[i] in the Cargo Integrity Group, known as CIG, recognise the vital importance of focusing on the threat of invasive pests to natural resources across the world, and of the...
Shipping industry urges governments to act on USD 5 billion decarbonisation fund
Shipping industry urges governments to act on USD 5 billion decarbonisation fund
June 18, 2020. For immediate release. The shipping industry has welcomed the growing momentum for a
USD 5 billion R&D Fund for shipping, but is calling on governments to act in line with their climate
commitments and not waste more time in moving forward with decisive action to support the
decarbonisation of the industry.
At the recent UN IMO meeting (MEPC 76), the world’s governments agreed to continue work on the...
Support grows for USD 5 billion research fund to decarbonise shipping as Denmark joins major shipping nations
Support grows for USD 5 billion research fund to decarbonise shipping as Denmark joins major shipping nations
Washington, D.C./Brussels/ Singapore, 15 March 2021 – The proposal to create a USD 5 billion USD International Maritime Research and Development Board (IMRB) was submitted to the UN’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on the 10th of March 2021 by Georgia, Greece, Japan, Liberia, Malta, Nigeria, Palau, Singapore, and Switzerland. Denmark now joins as a...