Implementation of the EU Sulphur Directive must be harmonised and realistic

Today is the deadline by which EU Member States have to transpose the European Sulphur Directive into national legislation. With the entry into force of the new European sulphur rules […]

Avoiding the iceberg: EU shipowners’ recommendations for an EU Arctic policy

The legal regime for trans-Arctic shipping is complex and consists of the framework laid down in UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of […]

ECSA brings offshore shipping into the fold

In recent years, one of shipping’s more specialised segments, namely service and offshore support vessels, has increased its importance exponentially. The sector includes, among others, ships laying or repairing undersea cables or pipelines, ships […]

European Shipowners welcome Athens Declaration on Maritime Transport Policy

Yesterday, EU Maritime Ministers met in Athens under the chairmanship of the Greek Minister of Shipping, Maritime Affairs and the Aegean, Mr Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, to discuss the mid-term review of the European Commission’s 2009 […]

Filipino seafarers: European Commission acknowledges progress, but ban still pending

In a press release issued last Friday through the EU delegation in Manila, the European Commission confirmed that the Philippine authorities have made substantial efforts to bring their maritime education, training and certification […]

EU shipowners applaud European Parliament’s change of heart on monitoring of CO2 emissions

The plenary of the European Parliament (EP) adopted today its report on the Commission proposal for a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) Regulation of CO2 emissions from ships […]

Europe and EU shipping: a two-way street

On the eve of its Board of Directors meeting, which took place today, ECSA organised a lunch in the European Parliament, followed by a high-level […]

Europe’s shipping sector welcomes new facilitations for seafarers under the revision of the EU Visa Code

Brussels, 2 April 2014 – The European Community of Shipowners’ Associations, representing the interests of the national shipowners’ associations of the EU and Norway, and […]

EU – Africa summit an opportunity to highlight piracy

The social partners of the maritime transport sector, ECSA (European Community Shipowners’ Associations) and ETF (European Transport Workers’ Federation), have issued a joint statement ahead of the EU-Africa summit, which takes place […]

Europe remains global fleet’s flagship

“Although shipping has seldom been in the limelight, it never ceased to play a substantial role in Europe’s economy” commented Patrick Verhoeven, ECSA Secretary General on today’s release of the Oxford Economics study on the economic […]