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  • Intermanager and ECSA to hold seminar on migrants at sea during European Shipping Week

    Intermanager and ECSA have taken the initiative to organise a seminar on the escalating humanitarian crisis involving migrants at sea during the upcoming European Shipping Week. Commission officials, MEPs […]

    Published On: February 19, 2015
  • Three more confirmations for European Shipping Week

     

    ESW Big jpgKaspars Ozoliņš, State Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Transport, Nikolaos Tsakos, CEO and Director of Tsakos Energy Navigation EU and Chairman of INTERTANKO […]

    Published On: February 4, 2015
  • Guy Verhofstadt to address shipowners and EU officials at ECSA gala dinner

    VERHOFSTADT Guy BEMr Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime Minister and leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), […]

    Published On: February 2, 2015
  • European Shipping Week welcomes more keynote speakers and panellists

    Adam Goldstein, President and COO of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Pierfrancesco Vago, Chairman of CLIA Europe and Executive Chairman of MSC Cruises, and Paolo Tonon, Vice-President and Head of Maersk Technology join an […]

    Published On: January 30, 2015
  • The Council of the European Union backs European Shipping Week

    The Presidency of the Council of the European Union has granted official patronage to the forthcoming European Shipping Week (ESW) which will be held in Brussels during March 2‐6, 2015. This support joins […]

    Published On: January 23, 2015
  • Top shipowners and regulators line up to speak at flagship European Shipping Week conference

     

    Violeta BulcVioleta Bulc, European Transport Commissioner, will join the heads of the European and Global shipping industry as speaker […]

    Published On: January 16, 2015
  • Social partners welcome Council agreement on exclusions of seafarers

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    ECSA and ETF, the European Social Partners in the field of Maritime Transport, welcome the agreement (General Approach) reached yesterday […]

    Published On: December 11, 2014
  • Shipowners welcome revamped EU anti-piracy naval mission that will run until 2016

    EU Member States have decided to extend the mandate of the EU anti-piracy naval mission off the coast of Somalia both in terms of scope and duration. EU Navfor […]

    Published On: November 27, 2014
  • All eyes on IMO as Europe moves ahead with CO2 monitoring regime for ships

    EU co-legislators reached an informal agreement last week on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of CO2 emissions of maritime […]

    Published On: November 24, 2014
  • European Shipowners launch ESSF sulphur survey

    European shipowners have launched a survey to monitor the economic impact of the 0.1% sulphur requirements for shipping in the European Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECAs), which are due to enter into force on 1 […]

    Published On: November 5, 2014