Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Financial year: Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
4
High-level Commission meetings
12
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
World Shipping Council (WSC)
EU Transparency Register
32416571968-71 First registered on 07 Jul 2009
Goals / Remit
The World Shipping Council (WSC or the Council) is a non-profit trade association representing the liner shipping industry. WSC members carry over 90% of the world’s containerized trade and a substantial share of the world’s roll-on/roll-off cargoes. Through its permanent office in Brussels established in 2007, the World Shipping Council partners with the European Union to improve understanding of the liner shipping industry and to help shape the future growth of a sustainable, safe and secure shipping industry. The office is involved in the development of new regulations to enhance cargo safety and security, the facilitation of legitimate maritime commerce and supply chains, effective liner shipping competition policy and the shipping industry's green fuel transition and progress towards zero emissions. The WSC also has representative offices in Washington D.C. London and Singapore.
Main EU files targeted
- EU Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy.
- EU Green Deal Policy impacting shipping and energy supply (EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime, AFIR, RED, EU Taxonomy).
- Implementation and reform of the Union Customs Code
- EU Sanctions Policy
- Implementation of the EU Maritime Single Window Regulation 2019/1239/EC
- Evaluation of the EU Maritime Consortia Block Exemption Regulation No 906/2009
- Draft Regulation on electronic freight transport information COM/2018/279 final - 2018/0140 (COD)
- EU Ship Recycling
- EU NAVFOR operations including ATATLANTA and ASPIDESAddress
Head Office
80 M Street, SE Suite 460
Washington D.C. 20003
UNITED STATESEU Office
Rond-Point Robert Schuman 9
Brussels B1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Arthur Huxham 14 Oct 2024 14 Oct 2025 James CORBETT 14 Oct 2024 14 Oct 2025 Felix SAMES 14 Oct 2024 14 Oct 2025 Damian VICCARS 11 Sep 2024 11 Sep 2025 Felix SAMES 22 Mar 2024 04 Oct 2024 James CORBETT 22 Mar 2024 04 Oct 2024 Damian VICCARS 22 Mar 2024 13 Sep 2024 Damian VICCARS 30 Sep 2022 30 Sep 2023 James CORBETT 29 Sep 2022 29 Sep 2023 Ms Anna LARSSON 29 Sep 2022 29 Sep 2023 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
International Chamber of Shipping
United States Council for International BusinessMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount baker botts (belgium) limited liabiity partnership 300,000€ - 399,999€ sec newgate eu 10,000€ - 24,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name sec newgate eu baker botts (belgium) limited liability partnership Closed year Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Other financial info
Two major economic studies were commissioned during the period covered which have been included in the costs covered by point C. See WSC Website section on CBER reform: https://www.worldshipping.org/cber
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Trade Contact Group#E02134#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2134 #Member #C#Industry#European Sustainable Shipping Forum (ESSF)#E02869#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2869 #Not a member #C#Industry#Sustainable Alternative Power for Shipping- Mid- to Long-Term Solutions for Maritime GHG Emissions Reductions#Ship Energy Efficiency#CPG 002 - ICS 2.0 Functional Requirements / Specification and Transition Feasibility Project Group#E03500#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3500 #Member #C#Industry#Digital Transport and Logistics Forum#E03280#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3280 #Member #C#Industry#High Level Steering Group for Governance of the Digital Maritime System and Services#E03450#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3450 #Observer #C#Professionals#Cooperation group on Places of Refuge
Groups (European Parliament)
SEARICA
Communication activities
For a complete overview of our communication activities please see:
- https://www.worldshipping.org/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-shipping-council-org/mycompany/
- Twitter: @WSC_shippingOther activities
The permanent office's activity is focused on the development of EU cargo security regulations, EU competition law and EU Green Deal policy relating to the liner shipping industry as well as other EU level transportation and trade issues.
Recent WSC Responses to EC public consultations:
1. Inception Impact Asessement on a Proposal for a Regulation establishing an EU Single Window environment for customs (4 May 2018 - 1 June 2018)
2. Evaluation of Consortia Block Exemption Regulation:
- Joint Comments with ECSA and ICS on the European Commission's Evaluation Roadmap for the review of the consortia block exemption regulation. (4 June 2018). ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/initiatives/ares-2018-2422025_en )
- Joint Submission with ASA, ECSA and ICS on the Review of the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (20 December 2018)
-Supplementary WSC Submission 14 March 2019
( https://ec.europa.eu/competition/consultations/2018_consortia/index_en.html )
3. EU Green Deal Consultations:
- WSC Response to the EC FuelEU Maritime – Inception Impact Assessment Consultation (23 April 2020).
- WSC Response to the EC FuelEU Maritime - Public Consultation (1 September 2020).
- WSC Response to the EC Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Directive 2014/94/EU - Inception Impact Assessment
Consultation (4 May 2020).
- WSC response to the EU Climate Law 2030 - Public Consultation (22 June 2020).
- WSC Response to the EC Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Directive 2014/94/EU - Public Consultation (29 June
2020).
- WSC Response to the Renewable Energy Directive 2018/2001 - Inception Imapct Asessment Consultation (21
September 2020).
4. Inception Impact Asessement - EU Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (28 July 2020)
Meetings
Meetings
12 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 10 Sep 2024 Location Brussels Subject Discuss priorities for the decarbonisation of international shipping, both within the upcoming Commission mandate and at the IMO in view of the revised green house gas strategy adopted there in 2023 DG Climate Action Attending - Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General)
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Date 10 Sep 2024 Location Brussels Subject Decarbonization of international shipping DG Mobility and Transport Attending - Magdalena Kopczynska (Director-General)
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Date 02 May 2024 Location Brussels Subject WSC’s Policy Priorities for the European Commission’s new mandate Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Attending - Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Sep 2023 Location Brussels Subject World shipping summit Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
- Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Jul 2023 Location Online Subject CBER review Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Liliane Giardino-karlinger (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Jul 2023 Location online Subject Review Consortia Block Exemption Regulation. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Liliane Giardino-karlinger (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject Consortia Block Exemption Regulation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Oct 2022 Location online Subject Competition policies Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Nov 2021 Location Conference call Subject Meeting to discuss the evolutions of the maritime sector. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Decarbonisation for shipping Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 May 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Competition Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Competition Attending - Claes Bengtsson (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 May 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject C-BER DG Mobility and Transport Attending - Henrik Hololei (Director-General)