A year in pictures: Shipping industry's highlights in 2022 - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

Once again this year’s docket was afloat of meetings, agreements and important announcements for the maritime community. In this photograph recap we person picked 22 cardinal moments that captivated industry’s involvement successful 2022.

In precocious January, a Japanese consortium led by MOL concluded the world’s archetypal oversea proceedings of unmanned cognition of a instrumentality vessel, from Tsuruga Port successful Fukui Prefecture to Sakai Port successful Tottori Prefecture

IMO, INTERPOL, UNODC and officials from 9 beneficiary countries attended the archetypal steering committee of a programme to enactment harmless navigation and information successful the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 19-20 January.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim participated astatine the High Level Session of the One Planet Summit For The Ocean successful Brest, France (11-2-22) and reiterated his committedness to support the oceans.

On March 8th, IMO, successful collaboration with WISTA International and Maritime SheEO, announced the motorboat of the Maritime SheEO Leadership Accelerator Programme 2022.

The UK’s archetypal nationalist Pride successful Maritime Day was launched by Maritime UK, connected Monday 28 February with a absorption connected immoderate of the advancement and champion practices helping interruption down diverseness barriers successful the industry.

”The oceans are captious to the aboriginal of humanity. Protecting them is vital. In the look of this challenge, I americium convinced that solutions volition besides travel from companies” said Mr. Rodolphe Saae, Chairman and CEO of CMA CGM, during the One Ocean Summit successful Feb.

In aboriginal March, the IMO Extraordinary Council Session was held to sermon the impacts connected shipping and seafarers of the concern successful the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, with the IMO making definite decisions.

On August 1, 2022, Joe Hughes relinquished his presumption arsenic Chief Executive Officer of Shipowners Claims Bureau, Inc. (SCB), Managers of the American Club, aft 27 years’ work successful that relation and Dorothea Ioannou took implicit arsenic CEO connected that date.

CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE, 1 of world’s 5 Largest Ultra Large instrumentality vessels powered with LNG safely docked successful mid-March, astatine Djibouti Port. It is really a important milestone for Djibouti arsenic Port of telephone by specified a immense carrying capableness vessels arsenic it’s transshipment halt point.

After astir 3 years, the archetypal Nor Shipping took spot 4-7 April, successful Oslo, Norway, attracting visitors who gathered for networking, partnering, showcasing innovation and connecting with the planetary maritime community.

In March, the Merchant Navy Welfare Board launched an exigency sim paper money of £5,000 to guarantee Ukrainian seafarers tin interaction loved ones backmost home.

Port of Antwerp, the Port of Cotonou and UNICEF formed a caller concern to beforehand resilient and sustainable nationalist proviso chains that maximize affirmative environmental, societal and economical impacts for children.

MPA Singapore and IMO jointly launched NextGEN Connect, a database which aims to bring manufacture stakeholders, academia and planetary probe centers unneurotic to connection inclusive solutions connected maritime decarbonization.

The Maritime Just Transition Task Force, established astatine COP26 successful Glasgow by ICS, ITF and the UN Global Compact, announced that the Singapore Maritime Foundation has go its archetypal nationalist programme partner.

On 5 April, during the league ‘Sustainable Cruising’ successful Copenhagen, 19 cruise lines signed a MoU with Cruise Baltic connected the usage of onshore powerfulness proviso disposable successful the Baltic Sea region.

On June 6 during Posidonia, Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) announced it intends to bid an ammonia dual-fuel state carrier.

IMO delegates held a one-minute soundlessness successful representation of Her precocious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, during IMO’s gathering of the Sub-Committee connected carriage of cargoes and containers, the archetypal successful -person gathering station covid.

During GMF Annual Summit successful New York, 22-23 Sep, UNCTAD’s Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan called connected the shipping manufacture to assistance get nutrient and fertilizers from the Black Sea to planetary markets.

Speaking astatine IUMI’s league successful Chicago, Sep 21, Patrizia Kern, Chairperson of IUMI’s Data & Digitalization Forum springiness an overview of ESG and the relation that information and tech play successful making ESG tangible.

COP 27, held from 6 November until 18 November 2022 astatine Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt concluded with a historical determination to found a nonaccomplishment and harm money for susceptible countries deed hard by clime disasters.

On December 1^st, ICS signed a milestone statement with the Emirates Shipping Association for enhanced collaboration towards COP28 and beyond.

WISTA International and the Maritime SheEO announced the commencement of the ceremonial concern successful November, initiating the 2nd Maritime SheEO Leadership Accelerator Programme.