The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC), as the trade association of the shipping industry in Cyprus, signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change, together with a number of its member-companies and joined the worldwide call to action to end the unprecedented crew change crisis caused by Covid-19.

The Cyprus Commerce Minister recently gave a press conference on a new strategy for commerce and new support programmes for participation in trade fairs.

Cyprus’s Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Natasa Pilides, at a press conference for the presentation of the ministry’s new strategy for commerce, as well as the new support programmes, operated under ‘de minimis’ state aid regulation, for the participation of Cypriot companies in trade fairs, at the Ministry of Commerce.

Cy-FOS The Cyprus Foundation of the Sea (Cy-FOS) and the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI) on January 25 signed a cooperation agreement.

The Cyprus Shipping Deputy Ministry (SDM) has announced a new range of green incentives to reward vessels that demonstrate effective emissions reductions. From fiscal year 2021, annual tonnage tax will be reduced by up to 30 percent for each vessel that demonstrates proactive measures to reduce its environmental impact, ensuring shipowners are rewarded for sustainable shipping efforts.

Just before the end of 2020, which has challenged humanity due to a world pandemic, the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) expressed its sincere gratitude to the hardworking seafarers who are keeping the world supplied with food, fuel, medical equipment and other vital goods through the symbolic initiative ‘Seafarers Deliver for Us, We Walk for Them’, held on December 31, 2020.

 The Cyprus Shipping Chamber’s president and members of its board of directors made a symbolic 10 km walk, from the Old Limassol Port right along the seafront to the old Amathusia Area, as a tribute to seafarers across the world for their valuable contribution and to show their solidarity against the discrimination they are facing during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite being key workers at the front line.

The Cyprus Shipowners Employers' Association (CYSEA), the sister employer association of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC), signed with the two Cyprus seafarers trade unions, SEK and PEO, the renewal of the Cyprus Collective Bargaining Agreement for Seafarers employed on Cyprus flag ships. The Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB) is also a co-signatory to the agreement.