The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) introduces the launch of the upgraded Roadmap to lasting delivery sector, a source for stakeholders throughout the delivery worth chain to browse the significant, pushing sustainability obstacles dealing with the sector.

There is a clear demand to improve the method delivery runs despite present and also future obstacles: from an altering environment and also the demand for quick decarbonisation by 2050; to boosted analysis and also stress from capitalists, lending institutions and also various other monetary stakeholders to enhance sustainability efficiency and also coverage; to the work and also civils rights dangers encountered by seafarers worldwide, and also highlighted by the continuous team adjustment dilemma.

Consisting of 6 vision locations– Oceans, Communities, People, Transparency, Finance, and also Energy– each lined up with the Sustainable Development Goals and also with its very own collection of purposes and also related turning points, the Roadmap lays out possibilities for favorable influence throughout and also past the delivery worth chain.

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Companies and also organisations can utilize the Roadmap’s 60 turning points as indications versus which they report and also track progression of their particular sustainability trips.

Developed by participants of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative with evaluation and also comments from sector, the Roadmap grows our specific and also cumulative understanding of the obstacles and also possibilities, developing an usual language and also objective for a lasting, effective delivery sector.

Initially introduced in 2016, the Roadmap was upgraded in 2020 to mirror the continual modifications in the maritime landscape and also guarantee its continuous importance. The upgraded Roadmap is a phone call to activity, raising passion to react to the worldwide obstacles and also patterns anticipated to impact the sector in the coming years.

SSI Executive Director Andrew Stephens claimed: “The Roadmap to a lasting delivery sector reveals us what lasting delivery appears like, highlighting just how we as a sector can play our component in the accomplishment of theSustainable Development Goals From sea administration; to port and also seaside areas; seafarers and also delivering employees; openness and also liability; monetary services to allow maritime technology; to the extreme decarbonisation of delivery– every one of these aspects are type in our cumulative trip to a lasting and also effective maritime sector.

The Roadmap is a device for the sector to rally about and also versus which we can hold ourselves responsible. We really hope all stakeholders involved throughout the delivery worth chain, will certainly locate the Roadmap valuable and also assess the paths that we can separately and also jointly add to, browsing to lasting delivery in the months, years, and also years to find.”

Quotes from SSI participant agents:

Jacob Sterling, Head of Technical Innovation, A.P. Moller Maersk: “At Maersk our company believe in taking obligation with cumulative activity when it involves going after services to add to the SDGs. We’re dedicated to increasing the favorable, and also alleviating the unfavorable effects throughout our procedures– varying from the complete decarbonisation of our delivery procedures to boosting ship recycling.

The Roadmap to a lasting delivery sector supplies a distinct and also enthusiastic review of the turning points and also concerns for us and also our peers throughout the maritime market, driving delivery’s sustainability trip in the years to find.”

Oriana Brine, Senior Strategist, Forum for the Future: “The unprecedented system shock to the shipping industry this year underlines the urgent need for fundamental change to create a more resilient, future-fit sector that contributes to a regenerative and just society. We welcome this Roadmap as a holistic tool to drive this transformation, laying out the actions required for stakeholders in the shipping value chain to help achieve the UN’s SDGs, and offering clear milestones against which to track the industry’s progress towards these goals.”

Katharine Palmer, Global Head of Sustainability, Lloyd’s Register: “We’re proud to support SSI with updating its sustainability roadmap in line with recent developments in maritime, ensuring its relevance as we move towards to a zero-carbon future. The roadmap is an important tool for both the shipping industry and individual organisations, setting out milestones that cover all aspects of social, environmental and economic sustainability, helping businesses develop their own journeys: focusing on where they can contribute positively. The SSI roadmap also translates the UN’s SDGs into what sustainability means for shipping.”

Sebastien Landerretche, Head of Freight Platform, Louis Dreyfus Company: “As a member of SSI, Louis Dreyfus Company is very pleased to see the launch of the updated Roadmap to a sustainable shipping industry. We believe this will be a key resource and guide, for us and for other industry participants and stakeholders, as we work together toward our common goal to reduce shipping-related emissions and protect human rights.”

Robert Haggquist, Charterer, South32: “At South32, collaborating with areas is a core component of that we are and also what we do. We think that by operating in collaboration with our areas we can comprehend our ecological influence and also just by interacting can we accomplish long-lasting social, ecological and also financial results. It’s this solid structure in between sector stakeholders and also areas that is crucial, certainly important, to accomplish the turning points laid out in the Roadmap.

We are pleased to add to this Roadmap, which lays out the turning points that the maritime market need to accomplish throughout 6 vision locations in the years to find, assisting us expand our focus on regional and also aboriginal areas past land-based supply chains and also right into our delivery procedures.”

Simon Bennett, General Manager– Sustainable Development, The China Navigation Company: “The China Navigation Company is dedicated to making the delivery worth chain lasting. As charter member of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative, we have actually functioned together with sector leaders for the previous 10 years, joined by an usual objective of cumulative activity and also openness to not just add to, yet additionally aid a lasting and also effective maritime market to prosper.

Stakeholders throughout and also past the physical and also financial lifecycle of ships need to function to integrate and also line up on lasting services to aid us accomplish the turning points included in this newest model of our Roadmap (and also as very early as feasible). We need to all act currently, and also act with each other, to deal with the varied obstacles dealing with the market in the coming years and also add to advancing the worldwide sustainability program.”

Mark Lutes, Senior Advisor, Global Climate Policy, WWF Global Climate and also Energy Practice:“The decarbonisation of the shipping industry is essential to ensure the world achieves the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5˚C. While the level of climate ambition needed from the sector has not yet materialised, there are voices in the sector, like the Sustainable Shipping Initiative, actively calling for comprehensive climate action on several fronts. It gives hope that the shipping sector will, sooner rather than later, move decisively to decarbonize by 2050 as climate scientists have told us we must.”