Impact Report highlights Global Maritime Forum’s work during challenging year for seaborne trade

The Global Maritime Forum recently published its Impact Report 2025, highlighting the organisation’s efforts to decarbonise the maritime industry, make life at sea more inclusive and appealing to all, and strengthen maritime governance.

The report chronicles achievements across all three areas during an extraordinarily challenging year for the maritime sector, marked by restrictions on free passage, threats to seafarer safety, and a shifting policy landscape.

Highlights of the report include a year-long campaign in support of the International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero Framework, the launch of the All Aboard Alliance’s 2026-2030 strategy to make the maritime industry safer, more attractive, and humanly sustainable, and the realisation of a long-time organisational goal to focus on maritime governance.

“Even though the Global Maritime Forum’s work takes place far from sea and away from the executive boardrooms where key maritime decisions are made, what we do creates real impact by facilitating and catalysing tangible change,” Global Maritime Forum Chief Executive Officer Johannah Christsen said. “That work continued in 2025, even as the environment around it became more difficult.”

Read the Impact Report here.