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GSF Calls For International Forum To Explore Shipping Industry Challenges

Date of Publication: 
Thursday, 3 March 2016
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Marine Insight
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Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) today called for the establishment of a Maritime Industries Supply Chain Forum at an international level to address the full range of challenges facing the sector.

One year on from the publication of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development International Transport Forum’s report on ‘The Impact of Mega Ships’ there has been no serious response by the shipping industry to the issues it identified – namely the wider external costs imposed by mega ships and alliances of others in the