The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC), as the trade association of the shipping industry in Cyprus, welcomes the successful completion of three years since the establishment of the Shipping Deputy Ministry, on March 01, 2018.
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.
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.
The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) and the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC), on 16 November 16, with the aim to collaborate on the eradication of corruption in the maritime sector and to safeguard a fair and sustainable maritime operating environment.
Every year, at the end of September the international shipping Community celebrates the World Maritime Day, which has been established and celebrated by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC), hosted the closed session of its 31st annual general meeting online on August 31, at which only its member-companies participated.
The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) expressed its deep disappointment that, despite repeated appeals and proposals from the international shipping Industry, there is a delay from governments around the world in finding practical solutions to the very serious issue of crew changes and repatriation of seafarers with expired contracts, in many cases beyond three months, bringing seafarers and the Shipping Industry on the verge.
On the occasion of commencing the gradual lifting of the restrictive measures, the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) congratulated the Cyprus Government and the state, as well as all stakeholders involved, for the good handling of the Covid-19 pandemic so far.
The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) has announced that its deputy director general, Alexandros Josephides, was re-appointed as International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Goodwill Maritime Ambassador for Cyprus for the period 2020-2021.