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For Belgian shipowners, 2024 was another year of major challenges. The geopolitical situation had a significant impact on the safety of shipping and its crews. Belgian shipowners did not hesitate to navigate the Red Sea in order to guide their ships on a safe but long journey via the Cape of Good Hope to their destination.
The updated Economic Impact Study on the Belgian shipping cluster charts the economic importance of shipping in Belgium. The study offers insight into the economic key figures up to 2020 of the initial study carried out in 2001, as commissioned by the RBSA.
Belgian Shipowners in favour of a fuel-only contracts for difference to enable the energy transition in the maritime industry
Navigating European Regulations on Pollution Prevention in the Shipping Industry – A Shipowner’s Perspective
De coronapandemie had ook in 2022 een grote impact, zowel op onze zeelieden als op de bemanningsafdelingen van rederijen. We zijn dankbaar voor al het personeel, zowel aan boord van onze schepen als aan wal, omdat ze geen enkele moeite hebben gespaard om de tijdige inscheping en ontscheping van onze zeelieden mogelijk te maken in overeenstemming met hun arbeidsovereenkomsten.
Abstract
The paper examines the worldwide environmental liability regime which governs liability and compensation for environmental damage from shipping incidents in the European Union under the umbrella of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The coronavirus pandemic posed an enormous challenge to Belgium’s shipowners in 2021. They spared no costs or efforts to move crew to and from the vessels according to schedule, at least as much as possible