SSI Webinar : Findings from the Shipping and Ocean Health 2026 Report
At times, the maritime industry has waited for regulation to arrive before it acts. In our recent Q2 Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health (MBOH) Breakthrough community webinar, three expert speakers made a powerful case for doing it the other way round.
The conversation highlighted six insights worth carrying forward.
Existing regulatory architecture works against joined-up thinking: Addressing the cumulative and cross-cutting impacts will take a step change from industry and regulators alike.
The next generation of seafarers can be the ocean’s custodians: Every measure we are discussing right now, be it hull management, routing, speed, new bridge technology, ultimately depends on crew expertise. They can make a positive difference.
If you measure the impact, you can manage it: Building a quantitative baseline for the impact of shipping activity is where this work starts. It will not be perfect on day one, but start now and iterate.
Ecological data is about to get much easier to use: Hub Ocean is soon to release a machine-readable version of the World Shipping Council's whale charts, ready for API integration into navigational systems.
The ocean community doesn’t yet picture shipping in these spaces: People deeply invested in marine protected areas are asking, how does shipping fit into this? Now is the time to be in the room to define how.
Ask who are we protecting it for, not just what we are protecting: These places are bound up in people's economic lives and personal identity. Climate, oceans and people are one conversation, not silos.
A huge thank you to Dr Simon Chin-Yee (UCL), Laurence Janssens (HUB Ocean), Dr Bev Mackenzie (BIMCO) for their time, expertise and insight.
