The Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating and improving international shipping, has elected Member States to serve on three categories of the IMO Council. Meanwhile, EmissionLink’s Managing Director has warned that the IMO’s decision to delay its Net Zero Framework is creating a regulatory vacuum which threatens to fragment global shipping decarbonization efforts.

The IMO Assembly has selected ten states with the largest interest in providing international shipping services to join the IMO Council under category (a), encompassing China, Greece, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Norway, Panama, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America.