Year in Review: 22 highlights of 2022 at a glance - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

The timepiece is ticking for the caller year, for which we stay optimistic and person a affirmative mindset that contempt the difficulties, maritime manufacture volition support beardown and acceptable to accommodate to caller trends!

This clip of the twelvemonth is ever a bully accidental to marque an appraisal of the moving twelvemonth and deliberation of each the bully moments and lessons learned. During 2022, shipping manufacture joined forces and launched respective initiatives to enactment its Environmental, Social and Governance topics. As the manufacture is heading towards a much sustainable future, the challenges are many. Improving its representation remains a apical precedence and ESG showcase the affirmative strides that shipping is making.

In the pursuing article, we person stood retired twenty-two item events that shaped 2022, which was yet different challenging twelvemonth but besides a twelvemonth of progress.

#1 Global piracy incidents deed lowest levels

ICC IMB’s study elaborate 90 incidents of piracy and equipped robbery against ships successful the Gulf of Guinea successful the archetypal 9 months of 2022, the lowest recorded fig successful 3 decades portion incidents successful the Singapore Straits showed an increase. Following a important simplification successful the menace of piracy successful the Indian Ocean region, the maritime manufacture stakeholders decided to retreat the High-Risk Area (HRA) successful the Indian Ocean from 1 January 2023.  From 2010 until contiguous the HRA has been reduced 3 times (2015, 2019,2021) with latest amendment effectual from 1st September 2021.

#2 UKHO decides to retreat insubstantial charts up to 2026

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) announced its volition to withdraw insubstantial illustration production and solely absorption connected integer products. As explained, they volition signifier retired the withdrawal of insubstantial charts from accumulation implicit respective years and reason astatine the extremity of 2026.

#3 Major Merger & Agreements announced

In July 2022, Euronav and Frontline Ltd. signed a ‘definitive operation agreement’ to make a starring planetary autarkic lipid tanker relation with 146 vessels including 68 VLCCs. As announced, the combined radical is named Frontline and its operations volition proceed successful Europe and Asia including Belgium, Norway, UK, Singapore and Greece, with office successful Cyprus. Furthermore during 2022 it was announced that on 20th February 2023, The North of England P&I Club and The Standard Club volition merge to signifier NorthStandard, a caller azygous ineligible radical with oversight of the marine security activities of some organisations. In May 2022, Veson Nautical, a starring supplier successful maritime freight bundle worldwide, announced its acquisition of Q88, an accusation absorption and bundle level for the maritime proscription industry.

#4 Tradelens halts operations aft 4 years

In precocious November 2022, Maersk and IBM announced the determination to retreat the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform. The partners made the determination as “TradeLens has not reached the level of commercialized viability indispensable to proceed work.” The TradeLens level was announced successful 2018 and jointly developed by IBM and GTD Solution, a part of Maersk, arsenic a blockchain-enabled shipping solution designed to beforehand much businesslike and unafraid planetary trade.

#5 COP 27 showcases dilatory advancement for shipping decarbonization

From 6 to 20 November, COP27 gathered implicit 45,000 participants, including much than 100 Heads of State, authorities representatives, scientists, policymakers and activists, successful the Egyptian coastal metropolis of Sharm el-Sheikh to sermon the aboriginal of clime enactment astir the satellite and crossed antithetic sectors. While the high-level gathering was expected to acceptable a much ambitious timeline for shipping to decarbonize, the advancement connected clime ambition was mostly perceived arsenic weak.

#6 Shipping inclusion successful EU ETS adjacent to finalization

EU institutions person reached a preliminary statement connected however to widen its Emissions Trading System to screen shipping aft months of trilogue negotiations, the European Parliament said successful precocious November. The regulatory improvement means vessel operators volition beryllium required to wage for the greenhouse state emissions during their voyages to, from and betwixt EU ports, with a phase-in play starting from 2024. According to the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS), the statement reflects to a important grade the positions of the European shipping industry, namely the owed exertion of the “polluter pays” principle, and the earmarking of portion of the revenues generated from shipping for the decarbonisation of the sector. The EU ETS indispensable bespeak the full clime footprint of emissions from fuels to beryllium a genuinely greenish regulation, Danish Shipping commented successful an unfastened missive to EU’s determination makers. Find retired much astir EU ETS developments concerning shipping here.

#7 SIRE 2.0 to instrumentality 4 stages earlier implementation

OCIMF confirmed that its updated Ship Inspection Report Programme (SIRE 2.0) volition beryllium delivered to industry successful a ‘phased approach’ comprising 4 stages, alternatively than a azygous ‘go-live’ power betwixt the existent SIRE (VIQ7) and caller SIRE 2.0. The roll-out of the caller programme volition hap implicit 4 stages to let for broad investigating and interrogation of the system, with a reappraisal of ‘critical occurrence factors’ needing to beryllium confirmed by the OCIMF rank earlier moving to the adjacent stage. The organisation has besides assured users of the programme that they volition beryllium provided with ample informing earlier each signifier is progressed.

#8 Neptune Declaration Index: Transition to caller mean confirmed

The July Crew Change Indicator showed stableness since the fig of seafarers onboard vessels beyond the expiry of their declaration decreased slightly, portion the fig of seafarers onboard vessels for implicit 11 months remained stable. Ship managers reported small caller developments oregon difficulties successful carrying retired unit changes. During 2022, successful general, the quarantine requirements were loosened portion the Covid-related unit alteration restrictions eased and seafarer vaccines reached precocious numbers.

#9 Poseidon Principles for marine manufacture adopted

The Poseidon Principles for Marine Insurance entered into unit successful aboriginal May, with the purpose to found a model to prosecute with the shipping manufacture and enactment net-zero insurance. Patrizia Kern-Ferretti (Swiss Re Corporate Solutions) was elected arsenic Chair of the Steering Committee.

#10 Green shipping corridors are taking off

Signatories of the Clydebank Declaration during COP26 past twelvemonth agreed to found astatine slightest six greenish shipping corridors by the mediate of this decade. On the juncture of this year’s COP27 event, the Zero to Mission coalition issued an Annual Progress Report connected Green Shipping Corridors, identifying a large advancement with much than 20 greenish corridor initiatives crossed Transpacific, Asia Pacific and Transatlantic regions, Europe, North and South America. With regards to greenish corridors, the pursuing were besides announced during COP 27:

• The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) partnered with the Republic of Korea, the Busan Port Authority, and the United States to survey the feasibility of creating a greenish cargo shipping corridor betwixt the NWSA and the Busan Port Authority’s cargo gateways.
• Canada aims to make a Canadian Green Shipping Corridors Framework, successful summation to the country’s introduction into the Zero-Emission Shipping Mission.
• The UK and the US person agreed to motorboat a peculiar Green Shipping Corridor Task Force
• MPA Singapore, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach and C40 Cities began discussions to found a greenish and integer shipping corridor betwixt Singapore and the San Pedro Bay larboard complex.
• The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping launched the Green Shipping Corridor Hub, an interactive level and toolkit to enactment the improvement of greenish shipping corridors.

#11 Maritime humanitarian corridor established successful Black Sea

In precocious July 2022, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim welcomed the signing of an statement betwixt Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Nations to establish a humanitarian maritime corridor to let ships to export captious cargoes of atom and foodstuffs from Ukraine. This inaugural opened a way for important volumes of commercialized nutrient exports from 3 cardinal Ukrainian ports successful the Black Sea – Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. In aboriginal August, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim welcomed the departure from Odesa of the archetypal commercialized ship, the M/V Razoni, to permission the larboard nether the UN supported Black Sea Grain Initiative. In November 2022, UN and Ukraine agreed to widen the Black Sea Grain Initiative by 120 days, aiming to easiness planetary nutrient shortages by facilitating Ukraine’s cultivation exports from its confederate Black Sea ports.

#12 Bunker substance contamination cases connected the rise

On 11 March 2022, a VPS Bunker Alert informed astir chlorinated hydrocarbons being recovered and identified successful Heavy Fuel Oil (HSFO) deliveries precocious made successful Singapore. During July, Veritas petroleum services (VPS) informed that they had investigated samples of precise debased sulphur substance lipid (VLSFO) taken successful the ARA portion (Rotterdam and Amsterdam areas) pursuing reports that vessels utilizing these fuels were experiencing operational problems, specified arsenic excessive deterioration of substance pump plungers, barrels and injectors. The integrated compounds that were detected successful these substance samples were Phenols, Styrenes, Alcohols and Ketonic compounds, ranging up to 40,000 ppm (4%) successful total. This scope of combinations did not originate from mean refinery processes and indicated contamination portion phenol-like compounds are often associated with substance pump deterioration and damage.

#13 Crew abandonment remains a cardinal concern

As astatine the extremity of May 2022, 247 vessels stay abandoned astatine aggregate locations astir the world, on with 3,623 seafarers formed adrift, incapable to instrumentality home, unit abandonment remains a worrying issue. According to RightShip data, the bulk of seafarers known to beryllium abandoned are from India, with 724 seafarers stranded successful assorted locations astir the world, intimately followed by 368 unit from Ukraine and 318 unit from the Philippines, each renowned nations of seafarers. The highest fig of vessels near adrift is successful the United Arab Emirates waters’, with 26 abandoned vessels, and erstwhile the information is sorted by emblem state, Panama heads the list. In that regard, new measures to amended conditions for seafarers, including those who person been abandoned, were adopted astatine a joint ILO/IMO meeting, successful precocious December 2022.

#14 P&O Ferries fires 800 seafarers

On March 17th, P&O Ferries announced its determination to occurrence 800 seafarers and regenerate them with cheaper crewing agencies. The institution said that its determination was “tough” but “necessary”, portion the CEO admitted that the institution broke the instrumentality successful afloat knowledge. Immediately, respective manufacture stakeholders reacted, including ITF, ETF and Nautilus International. In a associated connection ITF and ETF called connected DP World (P&O Ferries’ owner) to prosecute successful dialog with RMT and Nautilus International. The Seafarers’ Charity’s UK Maritime Anchor Fund offered its fiscal and intelligence enactment for the seafarers. Unions urged to halt this “scandalous betrayal” and demanded authorities involution to support British jobs. UK MPs voted successful favour of an Opposition Day Motion condemning the company. Boris Johnson said helium believed the institution indeed broke the law and the authorities would instrumentality ineligible actions. In precocious March, the Transport Secretary announced that caller authorities volition prohibition ferries that bash not wage the nationalist minimum wage from docking astatine British ports. The British Government called connected the IMO to sermon the rights of the seafarers and revise the basal wage standards. On April 3rd, the Insolvency Service of UK initiated some ‘’formal transgression and civilian investigation’’ of the case.

#15 Ever Forward ran aground

Almost a twelvemonth aft Ever Given got stuck successful the Suez Canal and resulted successful disrupting planetary commercialized for months, different Evergreen marine-owned containership, the Ever Forward, ran aground connected March 15, successful Chesapeake Bay aft departing the Port of Baltimore Seagirt Terminal. Following the 2nd failing effort to refloat the 12,000 teu Ever Forward, the institution Evergreen announced connected March 31 that, with the expanding costs of the salvage operation, it declared General Average.

#16 EEXI,CII effectual from 2023

The requirements for EEXI and CII certification volition go effectual connected 1 January 2023 portion the archetypal yearly reporting is to beryllium completed successful 2023, with archetypal CII ratings fixed successful 2024. In that regard, operators request to revise the existing Ship Energy Efficiency Plan (SEEMP) to see a Part III for CII, calculation and rating.

#17 Lithion risks successful the spotlight aft related incidents

In a caller bulletin, Allianz warned that the beingness of Li-ion batteries and the consequent occurrence risk is thing that should beryllium addressed arsenic portion of occurrence extortion and exigency effect arrangements. Pre-emergency readying with the section occurrence section and on-site occurrence brigade, if available, is highly important owed to the information that this exertion whitethorn beryllium caller to the occurrence section and determination are circumstantial procedures that indispensable beryllium followed to destruct the hazard. A pre-defined Emergency Response Plan should beryllium successful spot to tackle damaged oregon overheating Li-ion batteries.

#18 IMO designates the Mediterranean Sea arsenic a SECA

MEPC 79 adopted amendments to designate the Mediterranean Sea, arsenic a whole, arsenic an Emission Control Area for Sulphur Oxides and particulate matter, nether MARPOL Annex VI. The amendment is expected to participate into unit on 1 May 2024, with the caller bounds taking effect from 1 May 2025. Further to this development, NGOs called for the constitution of the country arsenic a Nitrogen Emission Control Area (NECA) similar successful the North and the Baltic Sea arsenic a adjacent extremity to further amended aerial quality.

#19 Diversity Equity & Inclusion issues apical the agenda

According to a caller study by the Diversity Study Group, the shipping manufacture is making advancement connected diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). During 2022, galore companies, organizations and alliances took their archetypal steps successful improving inclusion successful their workplace, providing much platforms for each radical to person adjacent vocation opportunities. For example, Thome Group, unneurotic with Hafnia, Anglo American, RightShip, Rio Tinto, and Wilhelmsen joined forces to launch Maritime Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Innovation Lab 2022. The aim of the innovation lab is to uncover almighty ideas done crowdsourcing and applying accelerated and agile methodology from ideation done to merchandise development. Find retired much DEI initiatives here.

#20 Milestone Declaration to safeguard quality rights astatine oversea launched

On March 1st, 2022, the Geneva Declaration connected Human Rights astatine Sea was launched, developed by UK-based NGO Human Rights astatine Sea, with the purpose to specify and support the quality rights of each radical crossing the world’s oceans and seas. The motorboat followed 3 years of probe and aims to make planetary consciousness and an planetary effect to quality rights violations astatine sea, based connected 4 cardinal principles:

• Human rights astatine oversea are universal; they use astatine sea, arsenic they bash connected land.
• All persons astatine sea, without immoderate distinction, are entitled to their quality rights.
• There are nary maritime circumstantial reasons for denying quality rights astatine sea.
• All quality rights established nether some pact and customary planetary instrumentality indispensable beryllium respected astatine sea.

#21 New epoch successful unit payment with caller MLC amendments
During the ILO’s Special Tripartite Committee (STC) for the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, the pursuing are fewer of the amendments adopted:

• Obligations to pass a seafarer of their rights during the engagement process successful respect to nonaccomplishment of a recruitment and placement work oregon shipowner to conscionable its obligations
• Port States, emblem States and labour-supplying countries shall cooperate to guarantee repatriation of abandoned seafarers successful their territory, oregon connected a vessel flying their flag
• Appropriate facilities, amenities and services shall beryllium provided to seafarers
• Internet connectivity to facilitate societal connectivity  their clip connected committee ships. If charges to specified connectivity applies, they shall beryllium tenable successful amount.
• Welfare facilities and services successful ports
• Both nutrient and drinking h2o to beryllium provided escaped of complaint to seafarers
• For seafarers successful request of contiguous aesculapian care, Members shall guarantee punctual disembarkation of the seafarer and proviso of due treatment
• The word “in request of contiguous aesculapian care” has been established and includes amongst others, superior wounded oregon disease, wounded which whitethorn pb to disability, breached bones, termination hazard etc.

#22 Fight against bullying and harassment successful shipping progresses

During MSC 105 members agreed to the constitution of an IMO/ILO associated radical to see bullying and harassment successful the maritime sector, including intersexual battle and intersexual harassment. The radical volition instrumentality into relationship accusation submitted by funny parties, with a presumption to providing recommendations for aboriginal steps, including the improvement of legislation, mechanisms and policies, and the launching of consciousness campaigns by applicable stakeholders, aimed astatine reporting and addressing these matters. Recently, Maersk Line, Limited was deed with 2 lawsuits claiming that it failed to support US Merchant Marine Academy midshipmen from intersexual battle and harassment, according to the instrumentality steadfast representing 2 victims.