'Common language and purpose': SSI refreshes sustainability roadmap for maritime sector

Cecilia Keating
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Sixty milestones set out in newly-launched industry-backed report aim to offer a sustainability framework for companies and organisations working to deliver a greener shipping industry

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) has updated its sustainability roadmap for the maritime sector, four years after the document was originally published. In the new strategy published this week,...

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