Save the date: ECSA F.I.T. lunchtime webinars

ECSA F.I.T. lunchtime webinars – Finance, Innovation, Transition

The shipping and financial services stakeholders are meeting online to discuss the current opportunities and challenges of ship financing.

ECSA is organising an event to bring together regulators, maritime experts and the financial services […]

Parliamentary event on “EU Ship Recycling Rules: carrot, stick or illusion?”

On May 5, MEP Jens Gieseke (Transport committee/EPP) and MEP Søren Gade (Chair of EP India Delegation/Renew) co-hosted an event organised by ECSA with industry representatives and NGOs on the EU Ship […]

European shipping welcomes the approval by the European Parliament of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

On April 27, 660 MEPs voted in favour of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation agreement

After the prior assent of EP foreign affairs and trade committees, on […]

ECSA webinar | EU Ship Recycling Rules: carrot, stick or illusion?

ECSA webinar | EU Ship Recycling Rules: carrot, stick or illusion? 

Co-hosted by MEPs Jens Gieseke (EPP) and Søren Gade (Renew)

Date: Wednesday 5 May 2021
Time: 12:00 – 13:30 CET
Venue: Online

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ECSA welcomes recognition of the shipping industry as a transitional sector in sustainable finance package

The European Commission adopted today a Sustainable Finance package with the aim of improving the flow of investments towards sustainable activities and hence using financial instruments to make […]

Joint ETF-ECSA Statement on the recognition of seafarers as key workers

Trade unions and employers associations in the maritime industry – both at international and EU level – have been calling on States throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to recognise seafarers as ‘key workers’. […]

Panama Canal Authority postpones planned price hike following calls from shipping industry

14 April 2021, Singapore – The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that it will postpone price increases on canal transit fees which were due […]

ECSA-ETF: EU shipping needs to attract and retain more women

The European social partners for Maritime Transport, the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), continue to advocate the enhanced participation of women in European shipping. On International […]

EU shipowners welcome Parliament’s call for a comprehensive approach under FuelEU Maritime

The Transport Committee of the European Parliament adopted today the Delli Report on more efficient and cleaner maritime transport. The Report calls on the Commission to address under the

ECSA: European shipping is central to the success of EU’s new trade strategy

With the launch of the European Commission’s Trade Policy Review published last week, the EU is setting a new course for a stronger role in the new global […]