Stockholm, Sweden - At the conference "Future Ports" held in Stockholm 25th-26th April, APM Terminals’ Head of Project Implementation, Soren Sjostrand Jakobsen, told delegates that increasing productivity to meet customer demand is critical for container terminals. "Our customers are building bigger and bigger ships and it is imperative that we are able to increase our delivered productivity at minimum the same pace as the ships grow - but preferably much more" Mr. Jakobsen said.
Close to 80% of the new container vessel capacity coming in the next couple of years are super post-panamax vessels. Shipping lines need these big vessels to compete but clearly cannot afford these to remain in port for days. "The container transportation market is expected to continue growing in the years to come and terminal operators have to find ways to increase productivity. APM Terminals has a range of initiatives to improve processes as well as applying new and innovative solutions and technology to lift productivity" Mr. Jakobsen stated. "We - and other terminals operators I'm sure - have terminals in their portfolio where a 40-50 % productivity improvement is not an unrealistic goal and even for high performing terminals it is possible to improve further".
Mr. Jakobsen also told delegates that though all these initiatives require a lot of investment it actually makes good financial sense for the terminal operator. "Improving productivity gets you free capacity, reduces cost, improves your product and you get happy customers. If we can improve productivity by 50% in a one million TEU capacity terminal we create a game-changer in the industry for our customers through better economics, reliability and capacity availability”.
"Productivity will be the battleground for terminal operators and those who are able to meet our customers’ requirements will be the winners", Mr. Jakobsen predicted.
Source APM Terminals
2012-05-02
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global traffic results for March showing that total passenger demand rose 7.6% and freight demand climbed 0.3% compared to the same month last year.
Comparisons with March last year are affected by events that depressed passenger demand in 2011, including the Arab Spring, which disrupted travel in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in February 2011 and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011 that impacted air travel across the Asia-Pacific region. IATA estimates that the year-on-year rise in air travel in March was about two percentage points higher than it would otherwise have been in the absence of these events.
Cargo demand, meanwhile, was affected by the timing of the Chinese New Year, which occurred in January this year—leading to stronger February shipments—but took place in February 2011—leading to stronger March 2011 shipments and weaker year-to-year comparisons. Compared to February 2012, March air cargo demand was significantly stronger by 2.2%.
“If we discount the industry’s growth by two percentage points as a result of the extraordinary events in 2011, airlines still managed an expansion in the range of 5-6%. Given the prevailing economic conditions with some European states returning to recession, passenger demand is holding up well. But this is bringing little relief to the bottom line because yields are not keeping pace with the continued very high price of oil,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director General and CEO.
Oil prices have remained stubbornly above $100/barrel (Brent crude) for the past 14 months. In 2008, oil prices rose from $90/barrel in January to a peak of $147/barrel in late July. But by November, they had fallen back to less than $50/barrel. “We have not seen such sustained high oil prices previously. Jet fuel prices have risen 8% since January. Considering that fuel now accounts for 34% of average operating costs, it’s an increase that hurts,” said Tyler.
Total passenger capacity rose 4.4% compared to March 2011, resulting in a load factor of 78.3%, up 2.4 percentage points over the year-ago period. Freight capacity, however, climbed 1.7% year-on-year, above the rate of demand, placing pressure on load factors.
March 2012 vs. March 2011 RPK Growth ASK Growth PLF FTK Growth AFTK Growth
International 9.6% 5.0% 77.7 0.1% 1.7%
Domestic 4.5% 3.3% 79.3 1.3% 1.7%
Total Market 7.6% 4.4% 78.3 0.3% 1.7%
YTD 2012 vs. YTD 2011 RPK Growth ASK Growth PLF FTK Growth AFTK Growth
International 8.2% 5.5% 76.4 -0.9% 2.6%
Domestic 6.0% 4.9% 77.5 0.5% 2.1%
Total Market 7.4% 5.3% 76.8 -0.7% 2.5%
International Passenger Markets
International air travel rose 9.6% in March compared to the year-ago period, while capacity climbed 5%, resulting in a load factor of 77.7%, up 3.2 percentage points from March 2011.
European airlines recorded the strongest traffic growth among the major regions despite deepening recessions in parts of the continent, with demand up 8.8% year-on-year, on a 4.1% increase in capacity. Load factor rose to 78.5%. This growth is partly the result of expanding European exports to stronger Asian economies and the associated business travel.
Asia-Pacific carriers also experienced healthy growth, with demand up 8.1% on a 4.3% rise in capacity, pushing load factors up to 76.5%. Year-to-year comparisons were impacted by the March 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, which are estimated to have reduced 2011 demand by 3%, exaggerating year-over-year growth by a like amount.
North American airlines had a 5.3% rise in passenger traffic, a solid performance for the region and concurrent with better economic results from the US, particularly with increasing consumer confidence. Capacity rose at a much slower rate than demand, by 0.9%, pushing load factors up fractionally to 80.3%, the highest of all the regions. Very tight capacity control in this region is allowing airlines to boost asset utilization, helping to offset part of the rise in fuel costs.
Middle East airlines’ demand jumped 20.9% on a 12.4% rise in capacity, propelling load factors to 78.7%. This was the largest rate of growth for any region but mostly reflects the weakness of travel last year following the Arab Spring. IATA estimates this inflated traffic gains by seven percentage points.
Latin American carriers experienced the second-slowest demand growth among the regions, but traffic still rose 7.7% year-over-year on a 6.7% rise in capacity. Passenger load factor was 77.9%. It is among the regions least impacted by the distortions in 2011 and this latest expansion reflects a continuation of the steady growth seen since early 2009.
African airlines reported a 14.3% rise in traffic, of which an estimated 11 percentage points was attributed to traffic suppression in March 2011 owing to the Arab Spring. Capacity rose 10.7%, resulting in a load factor of 64.8%, which although an improvement year-over-year, was by far the lowest among the regions.
Domestic Passenger Markets
Domestic markets grew at less than half the rate of international markets, just 4.5%, in part owing to the timing of Carnival in Brazil but also owing to slower growth in India.
Japan experienced the strongest traffic growth, up 15.5% year-on-year. This, however, reflects the devastating impact on year-ago traffic of the natural disasters of March 2011. March 2011 traffic was down 27% on March 2010 and the performance would have been worse had the earthquake struck earlier in the month. While the market has significantly recovered, domestic traffic levels remain 10% below those of the pre-crisis period. In fact, since the end of last year, domestic travel has started to retreat. Capacity was 2.6% below previous-year levels and the load factor was 64.8%, the lowest of any domestic market.
China’s domestic traffic continued on its strong growth path with an expansion of 10.1% but this was exceeded by an 11.8% rise in capacity, with load factors slipping to 80.5%.
US March domestic traffic rose 1%, but capacity contracted 0.7%, pushing load factors to 84.3%, the highest for any market.
Airline traffic in Brazil was affected by the timing of Carnival, which occurred in February 2012, a month earlier than in 2011. March 2012 traffic growth of 2.9% is estimated to be about half what it would have been absent the distortion. Capacity rose 9.2%, pushing the load factor down to 65.2%.
India traffic rose 4% year-over-year, much slower than the last few months, reflecting the wider economic slowdown, while capacity climbed 4.8% and load factor was 72.2%.
Air Freight (Domestic and International)
Air freight markets are now showing signs of renewed expansion. Freight Tonne Kilometers (FTKs) were over 4% higher in March than they were in the fourth quarter of 2011. However, compared with March last year the size of the market was up just 0.3%. This is because the Chinese New Year occurred in February 2011, resulting in strong March 2011 shipments as factories reopened following the holiday period.
Asia-Pacific and European airlines saw their freight traffic decline 3.1% and 1.9%, respectively, compared to a year ago.
Middle Eastern carriers had a 15.1% rise in demand, the healthiest performance among the regions, with about four percentage points of that rise attributable to Arab Spring-related traffic suppression last year. Latin American carriers’ traffic climbed 4.9%, while African carriers saw a 3.9% rise compared to the year-ago period. North American airlines’ demand rose 1.6% year-on-year.
Source IATA
CENTRAL China's metropolis of Chongqing saw 25 new logistics companies establish in the first quarter, reports Xinhua.
These companies include six foreign-owned and 19 operating international logistics businesses. Up to now, there were 321 international logistics enterprises in Chongqing.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
SOUTHEAST China's coastal Fujian province posted an 11 per cent increase in road freight volume to 118 million tonnes in the first quarter, reports Xinhua.
Road passenger head count was up 2.7 per cent to 198 million in the first quarter year on year. Cargo volume by water borne transport increased 9.6 per cent to 44 million tonnes during the same period, while the passenger volume grew 8.7 per cent to 3.77 million people.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
NORTH China's Ningxia recorded a 12.9 per cent growth in rail freight volume to 12.56 million tonnes in the first quarter, hitting a new high since last two years, reports Xinhua.
The cargo includes 9.7 million tonnes of coal, 726,000 tonnes of oil, 316,000 tonnes of steel, 40,000 tonnes of non-metal ore, 156,000 tonnes of grain, 485,000 tonnes of chemical fertiliser, 196,000 tonnes of chemical products and 433,000 tonnes of container cargo which was up 46.7 per cent.
The region's 40 key enterprises anticipating rail transport carried 11.81 million tonnes of cargo, growing 56.2 per cent year on year.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
SOUTHWEST China city Chongqing handled 5.46 million tonnes of outbound rail freight in the first three months of this year, an fractional increase of 0.55 per cent over the same period a year ago, Xinhua reports.
Outbound containerised cargo dropped 10.8 per cent to 191,000 tonnes. Coal increased 13.9 per cent to 2.69 million tonnes. Metallic ore dropped 27.7 per cent to 811,000 tonnes. Steel fell one per cent to 283,000 tonnes.
In the same period, inbound railway cargo volume grew 1.1 per cent to 9.89 million tonnes. Container cargo increased 11 per cent to 828,000 tonnes. Coal dropped 8.8 per cent to 2.86 million tonnes. Petroleum jumped 34.7 per cent up to 470,000 tonnes. Metallic ore plunged 25.8 per cent to 307,000 tonnes. Steel grew 11.6 per cent to 2.29 million tonnes. Grain increased 31.2 per cent to 653,000 tonnes.
In March, Chongqing loaded 1.98 million tonnes of cargo onto 33,599 outbound rail cars. The cargo volume was 11.5 per cent more than in February and 4.6 per cent more than in the same month in 2011.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
DESPITE a weak economy, the Port of Miami, already a powerful economic engine in South Florida, will spend US$2 billion to fund projects, including channel dredging, reports the UK's Port Strategy.
The projects are expected to be completed in late 2014. Port director Bill Johnson outlined the centrepiece of a three-pronged investment initiative, with funding coupled with financing from local, state and federal sources, is a tunnel that will link the port (on Dodge Island, in the middle of Biscayne Bay) with Route I-395, a branch of the US Interstate highway system. The result will be a smooth flow of truck traffic, no longer forced to use Biscayne Boulevard. Tunnel boring began in late 2011.
A dredging programme, estimated to cost $150 million, will deepen the channel into the port from the Atlantic, from its present 42 feet (13.7 metres) to 50 feet. The channel will also be widened and this will enable calls by postpanamax vessels of sizes up to 8,500 TEU.
The third part of the plan is a $50 million renewal of a rail link that would link the docks to the Florida East Coast Railway (which has a yard 12 miles west of the port, in Hialeah). This regional railway is a link to the big national "Class 1" railroads. "We intend to penetrate deep into the southeast," Mr Johnson said.
On the cargo front, the port's 2011 container flows registered in excess of 900,000 TEU ranking 11th in the US ports' league and first in Florida. The port's nine gantry cranes (two of which are able to work post-panamax ships) are being converted to electric power, from diesel. Four additional cranes, also able to work the new generation of vessels, have been ordered from Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, following approval in mid-January by the Miami-Dade County Commission.
The trade mix, which now shows a surplus of exports (mainly to Latin America), is expected to shift in the coming decades, with imports playing a more important role. The port's Master Plan 2035 looks to an annual throughput of 1.5 million TEU in 2020, assuming that Miami's streamlined rail and road linkages enable it to push into the southeastern United States.
By 2035, the midpoint forecasts exceed 2.5 million TEU, assuming additional penetration beyond the present hinterland, mainly in Florida. The game changer would be an increase in the import business as additional Asian goods are delivered to the US east coast by all water route via the Panama Canal.
Consultant Martin Associates, in a report presented to Miami's planners, said: "Two million TEU is the identified potential of Asian cargo moving into Florida from other ports."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
DP WORLD's London Gateway has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle as sole property agent for the coming largest logistics park development in Europe that will be connected to a 3.5 million TEU annual capacity terminal at Thurrock, Essex, on the north bank of the Thames.
Jones Lang LaSalle will provide specialist advice in the property sector to support the delivery of the London Gateway logistics park, which is located east of London on the north bank of the Thames, a statement from DP World said.
"London Gateway has the potential to transform logistics operations in the UK by offering a port-centric logistics solution at the heart of the UK's largest consumer market," said Tim Johnson, Jones Lang LaSalle's director of national industrial and logistics.
"The logistics park is a unique proposition offering the potential to provide some of the largest and tallest buildings in Europe. There are 15 million consumers located within 80 kilometres of the site and this underpins our view that London Gateway is simply the best location for UK supply chain solutions," he said.
The project has planning consent for a 9.25-million square foot, rail connected logistics park, adjacent to the new deep-water port, which is on schedule to open in the first quarter of 2013, reported Trade Arabia News Service. Most deep-sea imports enter the UK through south eastern ports yet only 10 per cent of warehousing is in the south east.
London Gateway offers significant supply chain savings for global businesses through reduced transport costs created by having warehousing at the port of entry, closer to key UK consumer markets.
Analysts estimate that 65 million road freight miles every year will be saved, as many goods will no longer need to be transported from deepsea ports to inland distribution centres.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Research Council of Norway (RCN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to renew their existing agreement on maritime research and development, education and training for another three years.
This marks the fifth MPA-RCN MoU signed to this effect.
"There is growing collaboration between Singapore and Norway in maritime research and development and this has benefited both countries. Building on the success of past projects under the MoU, we look forward to setting up further maritime research and development programmes with Norwegian institutions in the years to come," said MPA chief executive Lam Yi Young.
Said RCN director general Arvid Hallen: "An increasing number of Norwegian maritime companies have established their presence with headquarters for operation and strategic coordination in Singapore in the last few years. Norwegian R&D institutes and universities see Singapore as a strong collaboration knowledge hub for the future development into the Asian market."
Since 2000, MPA and RCN have cooperated in research in areas such as maritime environment, sustainable energy technology, offshore and marine engineering, and maritime operations and info-communications technology.
One of these research programmes is the collaboration between MPA and Det Norske Veritas' Clean Technology Centre (DNV CTC) on R&D in maritime environment and clean technologies. Through this programme, DNV CTC has embarked on joint industry projects to study the potential of the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in South East Asia as well as a feasibility assessment on LNG bunkering.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
BRAZIL's third largest container terminal, Terminal de Conteineres de Paranagua (TCP), has opted for APS Technology Group's optical character recognition (OCR) and automation technology solutions at its facility.
APS Technology said this is the first on-dock rail OCR solution to be installed in South America and TCP is implementing the APS Automated Gate System optical character recognition (OCR) solution that will automate box identification at the gate and rail entry and exit points with the collection of high-resolution images.
Brazilian ports aim to expand capacity. Terminal capacity increased 50 per cent this year to 1.2 million TEU. Terminal productivity increased from 30 moves per hour in 2010 to 56 moves per hour last month. The APS solutions will further help TCP handle larger gate volumes and streamline the current rail discharge process.
Currently, the rail process is cumbersome and time-consuming - trains come in three times a day, a reach stacker picks the container off the train and puts it on a truck. The truck drives to the main gate for weighing and then is taken to be stored in the stacks. The APS OCR container identification solution will work in tandem with a new weight-capture system with in-ground weight sensors under the track. The weight and identification will be captured while the train is in motion, eliminating multiple steps from the process, thus boosting efficiency.
"When the private equity fund Advent International acquired 50 per cent of TCP last year, we launched several initiatives to increase productivity," said Luiz Antonio Alves, TCP's CFO.
"The Brazil container shipping market has been growing every year for over a decade and is expected to continue to grow," said Allen Thomas, APS chief operations officer. "Implementing automation and technology to improve efficiency will give terminals a competitive edge. We're glad to be a part of this important project installing the first on-dock rail OCR in South America."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
A FIVE-week old orphaned sea otter from Alaska has been flown to a zoo in Pittsburg by FedEx on an MD-11 aircraft, according to Atlanta-area Air Cargo World.
The sea otter was transported from the carrier's Anchorage hub to Pittsburgh, via Memphis and the shipment required the coordination of Pittsburgh Zoo personnel and FedEx Ground transportation staff.
According to a FedEx statement, the pup was discovered next to his deceased mother on a Port Heiden, Alaska, beach in March. Before the Pittsburgh Zoo could provide him with a permanent home, residents of Port Heiden and the Alaska SeaLife Centre (ASLC) watched him round the clock.
"Once the ASLC and the Pittsburgh Zoo staff agreed to transport the little otter to Pittsburgh, FedEx was asked to help," said Pittsburgh Zoo CEO Barbara Baker. "We are so very grateful that we were able to utilise our relationship with Pittsburgh-based FedEx Ground to secure the support of FedEx Express and their utmost attention to detail when transporting our precious cargo."
The sea otter also travelled with an entourage, according to the statement. An ASLC veterinarian and members of Pittsburgh Zoo marine mammal staff accompanied the otter during transit to ensure he was well monitored and was in a controlled environment. The otter was also contained in a specially built transportation unit to guarantee that he remained comfortable during the entire flight.
Bruce Clemmons, manager of the FedEx live animal desk, said this shipment speaks to the integrator's proficiency in shipping live animals. "We're proud to have put our years of experience and delivery resources to work ensuring a safe and secure arrival for this tough young pup," he added.
This special shipment comes only three months after FedEx hauled two giant 3-year-old pandas from Chengdu to Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport on a specially chartered Boeing 777-F aircraft. The integrator also has experience transporting sea creators, having safely carried more than 25,000 endangered sea turtle eggs from the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern coast of Florida in 2010.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
RUSLAN International, the Russian heavy air cargo charter specialist, is to launch a series of cargo flights using its giant An-124-100 freighter aircraft to Uganda on behalf of a United Nations Mission in Sudan.
Japanese peacekeeping troops will access power generators, non-combat vehicles, communication equipment and other supplies by using smaller aircraft and trucks into southern Sudan.
Ruslan, which markets and manages the combined Antonov An-124 fleets of its shareholders Volga Dnepr and Antonov Airlines' said the series of 15 cargo flights were able to successfully complete the large-scale mission without a hitch, reported Roswell, Georgia's Air Cargo World.
"The An-124 once again came into its own because of the variety and bulk of many of the items being moved," said its business development manager Michael Goodisman.
Washington, DC-based AERObridge, which coordinates emergency aviation response during disasters through experienced aviation specialists, will also act in support of the movement of supplies to eastern and western Africa in the coming few months.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
THE International Air Transport Association's (IATA) 2012 Operations Committee (OPC) has agreed to four priorities, including pilot and engineering training.
IATA said in a statement that accommodating the growth in demand for air connectivity with trained pilots and engineers is a priority. It will facilitate this with the IATA Training and Qualification Initiative (ITQI), which moves into its implementation stage.
The focus will be on working with the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) and regulators to shift to a competency-based approach to training for pilots and engineers.
"Safety remains the top priority. We have a full agenda to make an already safe industry even safer. Industry and governments have always cooperated to achieve our common goals based on global standards and harmonisation. The need to take those even further in the areas of training, ground safety, and auditing will be our priority over the coming year," said Guenther Matschnigg, IATA's senior vice president for safety, operations and infrastructure.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
The state airline "Tajik air" starts to perform regular flights Khujand-Kulob-Kurgan-Tube-Khujand, which will connect the north and south of the Republic, on Tuesday, reported the press service of the company.
"The flights will be operated once a week, on Tuesdays, on a plane MA-60," said a statement.
The cost of a ticket from Khujand to the two southern cities (Kulob and Kurgan-Tube) is the same - $ 60.
The share of "Tajik air" in a total volume of air traffic in 2011 amounted to 29.6%. 470 thousand 600 people, which is 5.3% lower than in 2010, used the services of the company.
Performance of "Tajik air", which is 100% state-owned, was falling due to lack of service, cancellation of scheduled flights and delayed flights. As a result, passengers began to trust less, and even a statement on the acquisition of new aircraft does not help the company.
Central Asian News Service, en.ca-news.org
2012-05-02
May 1, 2012 (Seattle, WA) — The Mexico Baja California pole and line yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) tuna fishery has been awarded MSC certification. The fishery, which operates in the Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone off the west coast of Baja California, was certified following independent assessment to the MSC standard for sustainable, well-managed fisheries. Products from the fishery will now be eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel. This is the first MSC certified yellowfin tuna fishery in the world.
About the fishery
The client for this fishery is Productos Pesqueros de Matancitas S.A. de C.V. (PPM). The certificate covers two vessels (Molly N and Westerly) currently owned by PPM, with the possibility of extension to other pole and line vessels licensed to fish yellowfin and skipjack tuna in the area. The fishery is managed by the Secretariat of Agriculture, Ranching, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) under the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA) of the government of Mexico and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC).
The fishery operates year round with most fishing taking place between late April and late December. Landings by the two client vessels have fluctuated over the years and in 2009 were 379 metric tonnes. The catch of yellowfin and skipjack tuna is canned at the client’s processing facility in Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos, also known as Matancitas, and currently marketed in Mexico.
What the fishery says
Salvador Montes, director of Productos Pesqueros de Matancitas, said: “We hope to take full advantage of the benefits resulting from this certification, which will allow us to enter into selected markets that demand products originating from sustainable sources and fishing practices. Through the client action plan certain improvement actions were specified and we are committed to following through on these. We hope to prove that it is possible to conduct business within a framework that respects the environment and its natural resources while allowing for rational and equitable utilization, so that these resources will endure for future generations.”
What CONAPESCA says
"With great joy, I am pleased to announce that now, due to the rewarding of the MSC certification, the Mexico Baja California pole and line yellowfin and skipjack tuna fishery meets the highest international standards. The importance that the MSC certification has in the market will give consumers the confidence that these species have been caught through the optimum sustainable management for the fishery," said Ramón Corral Ávila, National Commissioner for Aquaculture and Fisheries in Mexico.
What MSC says
“The Mexico Baja California pole and line yellowfin and skipjack tuna fishery is the third Mexican fishery to become MSC certified and I congratulate the fishery on this accomplishment,” said Kerry Coughlin, regional director for MSC Americas. “The commitment of this and other fisheries in Mexico to environmental sustainability is important. This newly certified tuna fishery will no doubt be rewarded for its efforts given the high demand in world markets today for tuna that has met the MSC standard.”
About the certifier
Intertek Moody Marine, an independently accredited certifier, was the certifier for this assessment. During the assessment, the three principles of the MSC standard were evaluated in detail: the status of the fish stock, the impact of the fishery on the marine ecosystem and the management system overseeing the fishery. More information about the Mexico Baja California pole and line yellowfin and skipjack tuna fishery and the complete Public Certification Report detailing the fishery’s passing scores against the MSC standard can be found on MSC’s web site at www.msc.org/track-a-fishery/certified.
About the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an international non-profit organization set up to help transform the seafood market to a sustainable basis. The MSC runs the only certification and ecolabeling program for wild-capture fisheries consistent with the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization Guidelines for the Eco-labeling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries. These guidelines are based upon the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing and require that credible fishery certification and ecolabeling schemes include:
· Objective, third-party fishery assessment utilizing scientific evidence;
· Transparent processes with built-in stakeholder consultation and objection procedures;
· Standards based on the sustainability of target species, ecosystems and management practices.
The MSC has offices in London, Seattle, Tokyo, Sydney, The Hague, Glasgow, Berlin, Cape Town, Paris, Madrid and Stockholm.
In total, over 270 fisheries are engaged in the MSC program with 154 certified and 122 under full assessment. Another 40 to 50 fisheries are in confidential pre-assessment. Together, fisheries already certified or in full assessment record annual catches of close to nine million metric tonnes of seafood. This represents over 10 percent of the annual global harvest of wild capture fisheries. Certified fisheries currently land over six million metric tonnes of seafood annually – close to seven percent of the total harvest from wild capture fisheries. Worldwide, more than 14,000 seafood products, which can be traced back to the certified sustainable fisheries, bear the blue MSC ecolabel.
Source MSC
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