European Shipowners call for further action in the Gulf of Guinea

Latest incident involving Danish frigate highlights severity of piracy threat in the Gulf of Guinea

European shipowners are extremely concerned about piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea. The latest incident in South Nigeria, which involved a suspected pirate vessel and Danish Frigate Esben Snare and resulted in...

ECSA at UN climate change conference COP26

ECSA is a shipping association partner of the shipping conference organised by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) on the 6th of November on the margins of UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow. The ‘Shaping the future of Shipping’ conference will bring together ministers, key policy-makers as well as industry leaders.

Attendees...

European shipowners support commercial operators to bear the costs of EU ETS and call for a sector-dedicated fund

ECSA published today its policy paper on the EU ETS proposal. European shipowners welcome the increased climate ambition of the ‘Fit for 55’ package, recognising that the climate crisis is one of the greatest economic and environmental challenges our societies have faced.

European shipowners firmly support a dedicated fund...

European shipowners support the uptake of clean fuels but fear FuelEU may become missed opportunity due to enforcement loopholes

ECSA supports the objective of the FuelEU Maritime proposal to foster the uptake of cleaner fuels in shipping. However, the proposal may become a missed opportunity. Using documents provided by non-EU fuel suppliers to calculate carbon savings contributing to the EU’s climate targets may create substantial enforcement loopholes. Making...

Management change

Having tangibly assisted in setting up and led the current Secretariat team at ECSA for 4 years, Martin Dorsman, Secretary General at ECSA, and in agreement with the ECSA Board of Directors, has decided to seek other work challenges, as of 1st of October 2021.
 
“We warmly thank...

MapMar - ETF and ECSA are ready to deliver better responses for future challenges of the workforce in maritime transport.

We are proud to announce that the final report of the EU-wide project MapMar is out!

Based on the outcomes of this final report, we can happily say that the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) together with the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) are better prepared to explain...

World Maritime Day 2021 - Seafarers: at the core of shipping's future

World Maritime Day is dedicated this year to “Seafarers: at the core of shipping’s future”. The spotlight will be on the heroism of sea professionals who keep global supply chains moving in pandemic times and uninterruptedly run vessels to bring essential goods like food, medicines and energy all over the...

Mapping of Maritime Professionals – MapMar final conference (30 September)

European Social Partners ECSA and ETF set out on an EU-wide project MapMar to breach the gaps and inconsistencies in the way data on employment of maritime professionals is collected.

Millions of maritime professionals contribute to the functioning of maritime transport every day. As the sector develops and employment patterns and practices...

ECSA F.I.T. webinar - Transition (September 9)

ECSA F.I.T. 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 stakeholders to discuss the currently ongoing finance initiatives and to find practical...

Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions in the EU – Report on national transposition

The report on the transposition of the Directive 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union is designed to assist Member States with the transposition of the Directive into national law and contains useful clarification about the application of the Directive - which aims at improving...