Cruise and Ferry Review - Summer/Spring 2020

1 6 9 bit. This year, passenger ship operators can help to reduce their impact by ensuring they follow IMO regulations prohibiting the discharge of plastic into the ocean and implementing guidelines to reducing single-use plastic. Cruise lines operating in polar regions can also do their bit by complying with IMO’s Polar Code. How will IMO help the passenger shipping sector overcome these important issues? IMO will play a central role. Our regulatory framework creates a level playing field for the industry and acts as a catalyst for cross-sector R&D and technology innovation efforts, while our technical cooperation activities and collaborative projects help to develop capacity for global standards to be implemented. In addition, IMO provides the forum for different stakeholders to come together and jointly develop, adopt and implement global shipping standards. For example, we’ll help the passenger shipping sector to collaborate on decarbonisation efforts, develop and test low or zero-carbon fuels, and find ways to supply cleaner shore power for ships in port. What are your main goals for the IMO over the next four years? How do you plan to achieve them? We have five main objectives, which will be achieved by IMO continuing to provide a collaborative forum for all stakeholders to discuss policy issues, maintaining our long-running technical cooperation programmes, and bringing capacity building and training to developing countries. Our main goals include: 1. Develop more detailed plans to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions targets we set out in our initial strategy, which represent a reduction of emissions of over 80% for ships currently in service. 2. Ensuring that shipowners worldwide continue to smoothly and universally implement the 0.5% sulphur limit, so that everyone reaps the full benefits. 3. Digitalising the shipping sector by integrating new and advancing technologies into the regulatory framework. We aim to balance the benefits derived from these technologies with related safety and security concerns, their effect on the environment and international trade facilitation, the potential costs, and their impact on both shore-based and shipboard personnel. 4. Making shipping a more integrated and more efficient part of the global supply chain. 5. Improving the wellbeing of over 1.6 million seafarers working onboard seagoing ships every day around the world. CFR