ICS has told the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Warsaw that shipping companies already had “every incentive they need” to reduce CO2 emissions.

The International Chamber of Shipping has expressed concern over a new requirement for foreign shipowners to provide French customers with fleet CO2 information.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is calling for all future proposals for environmental regulation that impact on ships to be subjected to a full and proper cost benefit analysis before adoption by the IMO.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has voiced its concern over a European proposal for a regional CO2 monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system.

Koji Sekimizu, secretary general of IMO, opened the ICS conference in London this morning with a call for the systematic review of prescriptive safety regulation, and a shift towards goal-based standards. 

The question of what is in the box is a vexing one for container shipping. Modern containerships carry many, many thousands of boxes stuffed with a huge variety of cargoes. Most times the shipping line is simply reliant on the cargo being...

The landmark Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) will come into force from today 20 August will benefit quality shipowners and help level the playing field forcing poor quality owners to comply with a minimum level of standards for seafarer...

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), whose member national shipowners’ associations negotiated the text of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), has issued advice to shipowners to help them pre-empt port state control problems when the...

The Asian Shipowners' Forum (ASF) and European Community Shipowers' Associations (ECSA) were officially recognised as regional partners of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) at its agm in Oslo last week.

The International Chamber of Shipping  has spelled out the implications of higher distillate fuel costs to a meeting of OECD Transport ministers in Leipzig, Germany.