The UK Chamber and MNTB have welcomed confirmation from the Government and Maritime and Coastguard agency, that seafarer cadets will continue to benefit from financial support for their training through the Support for Maritime Training Fund (SMarT) until at least 31 March 2026.

We are pleased to welcome Michael Gordon of North Star as the new Chair of the Chamber’s Offshore Panel.

Ahead of our Safety Culture Conference, "Building a culture that learns, and lasts" next week in Newcastle, our Tim Springett and Eleanor Chadwick-Higgins caught up with keynote speaker Gareth Lock for a preview of his session...

The British Tugowners Association (BTA) is proud to announce the launch of its inaugural guide on the Use of Tugs in Firefighting at its Annual Conference in Belfast yesterday, 7 May 2025.

With the overnight news cycle feeding the frenzy of analysis of each next wave of announcements from the White House and US Government Departments, the Chamber has been working to cut through the noise and track the impacts for the shipping industry.

Gareth Lock, an experienced human factors and risk expert, is bringing an interactive, engaging, and thought-provoking session to this year’s Safety Culture Conference that tackles this exact question. His approach challenges traditional compliance-focused thinking and instead encourages a learning mindset. Participants will walk away with a clearer understanding of the invisible threads holding daily operations together—and how to strengthen them. Here, he blogs on why the human factor is vital in embedding safety lessons:

The UK Chamber of Shipping is very proud of all of its Charity Members who do such amazing work in the UK and across the world, and you can find here an overview of activity and appeals from these members.

The UK Chamber of Shipping has responded to the publication of a new Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy for the UK maritime sector. The Strategy, announced by the Department for Transport on 25 March sets out the Government goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, 80% by 2040 and to zero by 2050.

The UK Chamber of Shipping has released the following statement in response to the incident in the North Sea on the 10th of March involving the Stena Immaculate and the Solong, a vessel operating under the Portuguese flag.