Earlier this week, departing CEO of DNV GL, Henrik O. Madsen, aimed a strong criticism at the shipping industry and the major shipowners - and the European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA) now acknowledges that there is a basis for the criticism.
"Shipping is a very conservative, actually too conservative, industry. The attitude in the industry is mainly that any new regulation introduced is basically negative. I could hope that, going forward, they will change from seeing every new regulation as a risk to instead also thinking of a regulation as an opportunity," said Henrik O. Madsen in an interview with ShippingWatch.
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