IFSMA News Letter NL90 July 2025

Contents

Secretary General’s Message 2

Protecting seafarers against criminalisation 3

A digital learning management system for online training:

marinePALSⓇ 4

The IMO Digest 5

Reducing marine plastic litter from ships 5

IMO NCSR 12 6

Pakistan first SENSREC workshop 8

Ship noise and ocean pollution 9

UN Ocean Conference 10

Decarbonisation 10

IMO symposium: MASS 11

IMO and Adriatic Oil Spill Plan 12

Day of the Seafarer 2025 13

New era for ship recycling 13

Bonn climate talks 15

Improving casualty reporting and investigation 15

Berg Propulsion and bio-methanol for feeder ship 16

Samskip launches Blyth - Rotterdam service 17

Shore power 17

Car-carrier fire 19

NATO uncrewed vessels 19

Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality (AGCS) report 21

AMSA and the Maritime Labour Convention 23

The Maris MoU on PSC 24

ICS New Chairman Designate named 25

Shipowners’ and Managers’ survey 25

Resilience required, Michael Grey 26

World Marine Aids to Navigation Day 2025 27

Damen launches electric-ready ferry 28

VARD’s Prysmian Monna Lisa 29

NEWS CSOVs Grampian Kestral and Purus Chinook 30