Shipping leaders are joining forces to ensure the industry successfully navigates climate change, rising fuel costs, new patterns of global trade and other challenges of the future, it was announced today. Maersk Line, Gearbulk, BP Shipping, Lloyd's Register and ABN Amro are working with Forum for the Future and WWF in an ambitious project designed to chart a course to a sustainable future. The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) will examine the challenges and opportunities which face the industry over the next 30 years and what it needs to do to ensure that, by 2040, it is robust and profitable with a strong record of social and environmental responsibility.
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