The maritime sector has no shortage of ideas and opportunities to address the overlapping challenges of decarbonisation, climate resilience, and ocean stewardship. Breaking the silos around each topic makes it easier for the entire sector to move the needle by expanding synergistic strategies.

Member meetings like this are why SSI exists. Two days to step back from the day-to-day and think deeply, across the full breadth of what we do, together, in the same room. And what came through loud and clear from members was a shared commitment to building more action towards shipping's ambitious goals.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) today announced that NorthStandard, one of the world's leading marine insurers and a leading member of the International Group of P&I Clubs, has joined SSI as a member. NorthStandard joins with a particular focus on the SSI's Human Risk & Resilience platform.

At times, the maritime industry has waited for regulation to arrive before it acts. Yesterday, in our Q2 Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health (MBOH) Breakthrough community webinar, Dr Simon Chin-Yee (UCL), Laurence Janssens (HUB Ocean), Dr Bev Mackenzie (BIMCO) made a powerful case for doing it the other way round.

SSI's ship recycling work is moving from field research into active engagement with both industry and government on how to scale what is working at Alang.

Capital is moving at scale. Greek owners contracted 102 newbuild vessels worth $10.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a record high, with spec decisions being finalised in Korean and Chinese yards now going on to determine a significant share of the fleet's regulatory and commercial exposure for the next two decades. At the same time, ports are starting to compete directly for green capable traffic

Ahead of the Basel Convention's 15th Open Ended Working Group meeting in Geneva this June, SSI published a policy note addressing the long running governance gap between the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) and the Basel Convention, a gap that has stalled responsible investment in ship recycling since 2011.

SSI's work on insurance and welfare sits within our Human Risk and Resilience platform, which focuses on making people risk visible and material in operational and commercial decision making.

Under our Human Risk and Resilience platform, SSI is working on one of the most persistent gaps in maritime welfare: the lack of shared definitions and shared indicators for what good looks like at the vessel level.