Letter to the U.S. Senate Leadership on Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA)
WSC response to Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) Call for Evidence
WSC Response to the European Commission's Call for Feedback on the Draft Revision of the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act​​
The World Shipping Council (WSC) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Call for Feedback on the draft revision of the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act. WSC recognises the difficulty of the task the Commission has undertaken, and the March 2026 draft reflects a serious effort to respond to stakeholder input since the November 2025 call for evidence. WSC appreciates that engagement and the meaningful changes reflected in the draft.
Impacts on shipping and seafarers of the situation in the Arabian Sea, Sea of Oman, and the Gulf region, particularly in and around the Strait of Hormuz
Templates for use by masters when reporting loss or observation of drifting freight container(s) to coastal and flag States
CCC 11 noted the discussion of its Working Group on Prevention of Loss of Containers at Sea on the usefulness of templates for use by masters when reporting lost containers or observations of drifting containers to coastal and flag States, respectively; and agreed to invite interested Member States and international organizations to consider the templates developed by the Working Group and to submit proposals in this respect to MSC 111. This document invites the Committee to consider encouraging Member States to request that the templates be used by masters when reporting loss or observations of drifting freight container(s).
Development of amendments to SOLAS chapter II-2 and the FSS Code concerning detection and control of fires in cargo holds and on the cargo deck of containerships
Proposed Amendments to the CII Guidelines, G1 and the 2024 SEEMP Guidelines to Prevent Unintended Impacts on the CII Calculation
Proposal for a Unified Interpretation for Implementing Regulation D-3 of the BWM Convention
This document provides a proposal for a unified interpretation to clarify the installation date provisions applicable to ballast water management systems (BWMS) approved taking into account the 2016 Guidelines (G8) (resolution MEPC.279(70)), with a view to ensuring consistent implementation under the Convention. This proposal is based on the identified inconsistencies and interpretational difficulties between regulation D-3 and the BWMS Code regarding permitted installation dates, as well as recent port State control (PSC) observations under the Paris and Tokyo MOU concentrated inspection campaigns (CIC), which indicate that these inconsistencies have resulted in confusion within the industry.
Proposal for Converting the Interim Guidance on the application of the BWM Convention to Ships operating in Challenging Water Quality Conditions into a Standard Guidance
This document provides a proposal to convert the Interim guidance on the application of the BWM Convention to ships operating in challenging water quality conditions (resolution MEPC.387(81)) into a standard guidance, to streamline the reactive bypass and decontamination procedures, and to mitigate constraints arising from the designation of ballast water exchange (BWE) areas under the current Guidance. The proposal takes into account the ongoing review of the BWM Convention, the operational challenges encountered by ships and crews in implementing the existing procedures, and study results demonstrating that the application of ballast water exchange plus treatment (BWE + BWT) alone ensures compliance with the D-2 standard even when ballast water is bypass-taken under CWQ conditions.