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  • January 9, 2012

    World Shipping Council Adds New Board Member

    At its December 2011 meeting in London, the World Shipping Council (WSC) board confirmed the election of Mr. Ng Yat Chung, Group President and CEO of NOL, to the WSC board of directors for a term that expires in September 2013. The election of Mr. Ng fills all eleven seats on the WSC Board. Other board members are: Mr. Philip Chow, Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL); Mr. Thomas Crowley, Jr., Crowley Maritime Corporation; Mr. Rafi Danieli, Zim Integrated Shipping Services; Mr. Morten Engelstof, Maersk Line; Dr. Ottmar Gast, Hamburg Sud; Mr. Y. M. Kim, Hanjin Shipping; Mr. Ulrich Kranich, Hapag-Lloyd AG; Mr. Kenji Mizushima, NYK Line; Mr. Wan Min, COSCO Container Lines; and, Mr. Ron Widdows, who will continue to serve as the WSC Board Chairman until September 2012.

    The World Shipping Council is an association of liner shipping companies with offices in Brussels and Washington, D.C. Its members transport over 90 percent of international containerized trade. The WSC's goal is to provide a coordinated voice for the liner shipping industry in its work with policymakers and other industry groups interested in international transportation issues.

    For more information about the World Shipping Council and the international liner shipping industry, visit www.worldshipping.org.

  • December 12, 2011

    Carriers and Ports are United on Need to Weigh Containers.  Read the release.

  • September 28, 2011

     World Shippping Council Adds New Board Members and Keeps Widdows as Chairman

    At its membership meeting in Seoul last week, the World Shipping Council (WSC) membership elected Mr. Wan Min, Managing Director of COSCO Container Lines and Dr. Ottmar Gast, Chairman of the Executive Board of Hamburg Süd to two year terms on its Board of Directors, and re-elected to the Board Mr. Philip Chow of Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Mr. Morten Englestoft of Maersk Line and Mr. Ulrich Kranich of Hapag-Lloyd AG. 
     
    They join Mr. Thomas Crowley, Jr., Crowley Maritime Corporation; Mr. Rafi Danieli, Zim Integrated Shipping Services; Mr. Y.M. Kim, Hanjin Shipping; Mr. Kenji Mizushima, NYK Line; and Mr. Ron Widdows, NOL on the WSC Board.
     
    The WSC Membership also approved Mr. Widdows’ continuation as Chairman of the Board through September 2012, after he steps down from his current role as Group President and CEO of NOL later this year.
     
     
  • August 10, 2011

    World Shipping Council Releases First-Ever Survey on Containers Lost at Sea

    The liner shipping industry has been the subject of a number of unfavorable stories or reports that allege that the industry loses as many as 10,000 containers a year at sea. although most industry representatives recognized that this number was incorrect, there was no conclusive evidence to refute it  Accordingly, the World Shipping Council (WSC) conducted a survey of its members and concluded that indeed the estimated losses are far below the figures previously reported.  Read the summary of the analysis.

     

  • July 12, 2011

    The World Shipping Council together with the Government of Japan issued a paper entitled "Design and Implementation of the Vessel Efficiency Incentive Scheme (EIS)"  providing an explanation of how this innovative carbon emission reduction proposal would work, and why it offiers effciency, cost, and environmental advantages when compared to other proposals. The EIS is a further refinement of the previous proposal that was submitted by the World Shipping Council to the IMO in January 2010.

  • June 9, 2011
  • May 23, 2011

    Global shipping organizations commend the IMO for taking action to address the problem of misdeclared container weights. WSC_ICS_Joint_Release_on_IMO_MSC_89_Action_Final.pdf