World’s Largest Shippers‘ Organisations Unite
European and Asian Shippers increase cooperation
The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) and the Asian Shippers’ Meeting (ASM) agreed to take their cooperation to the next level. According to the two organisations, the intensified cooperation will further decrease trade barriers.
In a joint meeting in Chiang Rai, Thailand, the ESC and ASM agreed to work closer together on a selected number of truly international issues that have a big impact on shippers in particular and therefore on the economy and consumers in general.
International community
The shippers’ councils agreed that their member companies, in order to cooperate more on a global scale, should make use of already existing structures and organisations, bind them together and invite individual representatives that or not yet part of an international organisation. The cooperating organisations will assist each other on education and capacity building to augment the quality of the international logistic community. They will make existing training modules available internationally, set up a cross-cultural exchange program and develop new international training courses.
IMO
On the proposal on weighing of containers as presently discussed in the International Maritime Organization (IMO), all organisations present at the joint meeting in Asia agreed to step up their actions in convincing the IMO that the present proposals are wrong. The current proposals don’t take into account the full array of causes for potential unsafe situations in the maritime transport of containers. Therefore, the organisations argue, they do not comprise an effective set of measures to improve marine safety. The ESC and ASM will propose amendments and suggestions to improve the draft position in the IMO.
Source: European Shippers‘ Council