IFSMA News Letter NL87 April 2025

Contents

Secretary General’s Message 2

From the News Editor: Hazardous cargo San Juan 3

Best Management Practices (BMP) Maritime Security 3

The IMO Digest 4

Pacific women in maritime 4

IMO to develop global strategy for maritime digitalization 5

Facilitation Convention at 60 6

UN agencies urge: Protect satellite navigation from

interference 7

Getting on board the green shipping revolution 8

Largest NATO exercise of 2025 9

North Sea Port-Canada trade 10

Firefighting suit protection 11

The first fully electric offshore vessel 11

Ro-Pax vessel Marco Polo 12

G7 Foreign Ministers 13

New Food4Seafarers Project 16

Iceberg A23a runs aground near South Georgia Island 17

Learning differently about accidents 17

FuelEU Maritime Regulation 18

Alfa Laval and ammonia fuel supply systems 19

Hold cleanliness 20

2026 America’s 250th anniversary celebration 21

Reducing maritime emissions 22

Pacific International Lines, Fleet renewal 22

ABS and PIL sign MOU 23

Shiphandling, The Beautiful Game: Volume One 24

UK and carbon-free shipping by 2050 24

ISWAN advocates for a seafarer-centred future 26

Sea-Care Working Group 27

The EU Space Programme 28