Shipping needs one global voice

Shipping needs “one voice” to represent it globally and enable the maritime community to communicate more effectively with regulators, says Mark O’Neil, president of ship management association InterManager, and CEO of Columbia Shipmanagement. As the industry builds up to the vital COP26 environmental world discussions in November, O’Neil urged it to capitalise on the cooperation achieved in collectively working to tackle the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic in order to address other global issues.