Ship Managers Make Changes to IMO Net-Zero Framework to Avoid Legal Action

[By: InterManager]

Ship managers have expressed concerns in connection with the International Maritime Organization’s future net-zero framework and have suggested concrete changes which they believe would make the proposals more effective.

Acting on behalf of the global shipmanagement sector, InterManager, the international association for ship managers, has submitted a proposal to the next meeting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC83) to suggest important changes.

The submission warns that, in its current form, the greenhouse gas (GHG) proposal doesn’t properly account for the involvement of a third-party International Safety Management (ISM) Manager.

Highlighting that roughly 20% of the global fleet i…