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SEA Europe and industriAll Europe, the social partners for shipbuilding and ship repair, jointly call upon the next European Commission to issue a robust EU maritime industrial strategy.

Global and European trade associations have issued an urgent alert to all businesses involved in the movement of goods into or via the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, or Northern Ireland by sea, road, or rail, to prepare for the new Import Control System (ICS2) that will start to be introduced from June this year.

BIMCO has developed a standard mandate for use when the parties to a ship management contract agree to give a mandate to an organisation or person to comply with obligations under the European Union Emission Trading System (ETS).

EU ATALANTA provides details about an attempted highjacking incident that took place on May 10th, in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia.

On April 26 2024, the EU Parliament approved the Net-Zero industry Act to bolster EU production in technologies needed for decarbonization, while taking steps to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty. 

According to sources from the European Union, the European Commission is likely to suggest imposing penalties on vessels transporting North Korean military equipment to Russia, as well as on tankers that violate the G7's price limit for Russian oil, Reuters highlights.

In a recent statement, the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) welcomed the European Council's call for a European Competitiveness Deal. 

SEA Europe, the association representing the European maritime technology industry, comprising shipyards and maritime equipment manufacturers, presented its policy recommendations for a Maritime Industrial Strategy at the European Parliament.

The World Shipping Council (WSC) is calling on the EU to design policy frameworks that facilitate the essential role of shipping in a globally connected economy and to forge the path to net-zero shipping by 2050 in partnership with industry.

Five northern European countries, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden, have established arrangements allowing cross-border transport and storage of captured CO2, advancing a European infrastructure for carbon capture and storage.