Our Work
SSI operates at the critical point where commercial practice, financial incentives, and operational standards intersect. Across our programmes, we bring together our members and the wider actors who shape decisions in shipping to identify what is blocking progress and build the tools to remove those barriers.
NorthStandard joins the SSI as a Member, with a focus on human risk and resilience
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) today announced that NorthStandard, one of the world's leading marine insurers and a leading member of the International Group of P&I Clubs, has joined SSI as a member. NorthStandard joins with a particular focus on the SSI's Human Risk & Resilience platform.
SSI Webinar : Findings from the Shipping and Ocean Health 2026 Report
At times, the maritime industry has waited for regulation to arrive before it acts. Yesterday, in our Q2 Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health (MBOH) Breakthrough community webinar, Dr Simon Chin-Yee (UCL), Laurence Janssens (HUB Ocean), Dr Bev Mackenzie (BIMCO) made a powerful case for doing it the other way round.
Initiative : Ship Recycling at Alang-Sosiya
SSI's ship recycling work is moving from field research into active engagement with both industry and government on how to scale what is working at Alang.
Report : Commercial Pathways to Transition
Capital is moving at scale. Greek owners contracted 102 newbuild vessels worth $10.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a record high, with spec decisions being finalised in Korean and Chinese yards now going on to determine a significant share of the fleet's regulatory and commercial exposure for the next two decades. At the same time, ports are starting to compete directly for green capable traffic
Report : Post-HKC Implementation, Alang-Sosiya Preparing for Growth
Ahead of the Basel Convention's 15th Open Ended Working Group meeting in Geneva this June, SSI published a policy note addressing the long running governance gap between the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) and the Basel Convention, a gap that has stalled responsible investment in ship recycling since 2011.
Initiative: Embedding Seafarer Welfare into Insurance and Investment Decisions
SSI's work on insurance and welfare sits within our Human Risk and Resilience platform, which focuses on making people risk visible and material in operational and commercial decision making.
Initiative : Vessel-Level Welfare Indicators, a Shared Industry Ambition
Under our Human Risk and Resilience platform, SSI is working on one of the most persistent gaps in maritime welfare: the lack of shared definitions and shared indicators for what good looks like at the vessel level.
Film: Celebrating 15 Years of the SSI
For well over a decade, the Sustainable Shipping Initiative has brought together leaders across the maritime value chain to advance a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient industry. This anniversary reel celebrates the organisations and individuals whose collaboration has shaped SSI’s journey and turned ambition into real-world action.
