A UK Chamber of Shipping survey has found 71% of respondents in agreement that the UK remains a globally competitive place to do business, with a 55% putting London as the world's leading maritime centre.

The UK Chamber of Shipping has taken a closer look at what constitutes 'human error', the cause of 80% of marine accidents.

The UK's stance on immigration is restricting recruitment of talent in the shipping industry, the UK Chamber of Shipping president stated in his inaugural speech last night.

There is, said the president of the UK Chamber of Shipping the other day, “a global shortage of seafarers”. There is nothing very unusual in such an observation; the shipping industry has been swinging from feast to famine for centuries. It was...

Newly elected president of the UK Chamber of Shipping, Marcus Bowman in first speech, outlined his ambition to move beyond "business as usual" and tackle the issues facing the UK shipping industry.

Shipping in Europe, and particularly in the UK, is being crippled by over-zealous environmental measures from the EU, and paralysis at the IMO, UK Chamber of Shipping director David Balston claims.  

While it was some topical references to the EU and the looming referendum on Scottish independence that drew the headlines, the president’s speech at the UK Chamber of Shipping’s annual dinner this week formed a coherent manifesto about the need...