The Global Maritime Forum is an international not-for-profit organisation for the global maritime industry. It convenes leaders from across the maritime community with policy-makers, experts, NGOs and other influential decision-makers.
Initiatives
The Getting to Zero Coalition is a partnership between the Global Maritime Forum and the
World Economic Forum
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. Launched at the
United Nations Climate Change Conference
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in New York in 2019, the Getting to Zero Coalition is a platform that convenes around 200 stakeholders from across the shipping and fuels value chain. The goal of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to have commercially viable Zero Emission Vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030, supported by the necessary infrastructure for scalable zero-carbon energy sources including production, distribution, storage and bunkering. The ultimate ambition of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to reach the full decarbonization of global shipping by 2050; in 2021, Call to Action initiative was developed with more than 150 industry leaders and organizations urging governments and global shipping industry to commit to full decarbonization of international shipping by 2050.
Founding partners
The 14 founding partners of the Global Maritime Forum are
A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Arshiya Limited,
Euronav
Euronav is a Belgian international shipping enterprise which focuses on oil transport by sea. Euronav is considered to be one of the major independent global oil shipping firms.
Euronav is in the process of merging with another leading oil tanker ...
,
GasLog, Gorrissen Federspiel, Gulf Agency Company,
Heidrick & Struggles
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History
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Hempel Group
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,
KfW IPEX-Bank
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MISC
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* Misc (title), a gender neutral title
* MISC Berhad, or Malaysia International Shipping Corporation
* Minimal instruction set computer, a processor architecture
* Moi International Sports Centre, in Kasarani, Kenya
* ...
,
Onassis Foundation,
PSA International,
Trafigura
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and
Wan Hai Lines Wan Hai Lines, Ltd. () is a Taiwan, Taiwanese shipping company founded in 1965. Since then, it has become one of the largest players in the container shipping industry, with a fleet of 72 vessels and a capacity of roughly 180,000 Twenty-foot equival ...
.
Secretariat
The organization is based in
Copenhagen
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.
Summits
The first summit of the Global Maritime Forum took place in Hong Kong, October 2018.
References
External links
Official website
International Maritime Organization
Organizations established in 2017
Organizations based in Copenhagen
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