Container shippers join forces for safety

The Container Ship Safety Forum (CSSF) has been launched as a global business-to-business network that aims to improve safety performance and management practices in the container shipping industry.

Seven major companies, including Maersk, CMA CGM, Rickmers Shipmanagement and Zodiac Maritime Agencies, have founded the initiative to collectively identify common safety hotspots across the industry and ways to address the underlying causes.

Other segments of the shipping industry, such as the tanker and offshore industries, have already established collaborative safety forums but a CSSF spokesperson said it was the first for the container sector.