Lending our voice to climate advocacy
The pressure for environmental action and regulation creates the need for even greater collaboration between industry players— not only amongst ship owners and operators but also charterers, banks, and governments. We are active participants in multiple associations working on industry matters, including climate change initiatives.
In 2025, BW Group and its affiliates were a member of or partner with the following associations and organisations:
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) was established on 1 August 2021 as a non-profit organisation with a mission to help the maritime sector decarbonise.
As a neutral platform, GCMD convenes stakeholders across the maritime value chain to de-risk the adoption of decarbonisation solutions in operational and commercial settings by addressing barriers that single actors cannot solve alone.
Strategically located in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering hub and busiest transshipment port, GCMD was founded with the support of industry partners, alongside funding from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) for qualifying research and development programmes. Since then, it has expanded its ecosystem to more than 130 centre- and project-level partners contributing funds, expertise, and in-kind support to pilot, accelerate deployment, and scale the adoption of decarbonisation solutions.
Chaired by BW Group Chairman, Andreas Sohmen-Pao, GCMD aims to support decarbonisation across the industry through four pillars:
Shaping standards:
Sharing learnings from projects to assist and accelerate the drafting of guidelines and standards
Financing projects:
Co-funding projects, especially those lacking immediate commercial viability, to generate knowledge for public benefit.
Deploying solutions:
Convening partners to execute projects together to demonstrate the viability of decarbonisation solutions.
Fostering collaboration:
Providing a neutral ground for stakeholders across the value chain to cooperate, ensuring a diversity of inputs to operationalise pilots.
GCMD recognises the need for a whole-of-systems approach that considers multiple solutions for international shipping to achieve its near- and long-term decarbonisation ambitions.
To prioritise, GCMD scopes its work across four key areas:
Enabling ammonia as a marine fuel:
Closing technical and operational gaps in safety procedures, operational protocols, and emergency response measures to build ecosystem confidence in the use of ammonia as a marine fuel
Developing an assurance framework for drop-in green fuels:
Safeguarding key aspects of biofuels use, including quantity, quality and GHG emissions abatement
Unlocking the carbon value chain:
Addressing technical, operational, and value-chain gaps to advance onboard carbon capture and storage (OCCS) as a viable decarbonisation pathway
Scaling adoption of energy efficiency technologies (EETs):
Tackling long-standing technical, data, and financing barriers to accelerate EET uptake
Ultimately, GCMD aims to build industry confidence so that solutions can move beyond one-off demonstrations and pilot projects and become a repeatable practice in everyday maritime operations.
For more information, visit https://www.gcformd.org ↗
Other key industry collaborations and initiatives BW is involved in
Diversity Study Group
DSG is dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace across the global shipping and maritime sectors.
Getting to Zero Coalition
Several BW affiliates have joined the Getting to Zero Coalition, an alliance of more than 200 companies within the maritime, energy, infrastructure, and finance industry, including key governments and Inter-Governmental Organisations support.
The Coalition is committed to getting commercially viable zero-emission deep-sea vessels into operation by 2030.
All Aboard Alliance
The All-Aboard Alliance, co-chaired by Hafnia’s CEO Mikael Skov, was founded in 2022 via a collaborative drive from top industry leaders, towards increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the maritime sector. The Diversity Study Group is one of the Founding Knowledge Partners.
In 2025, the All-Aboard Alliance introduced its 2030 strategy, presenting a forward-looking framework designed to elevate life and work at sea. Built around four core goals ensuring safe working conditions, strengthening physical and mental wellbeing, advancing inclusion and diversity, and creating flexible, attractive career pathways, the strategy reflects a shared vision of a maritime industry where people can thrive.
Maritime Anti-Corruption Network
BW is a member of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), a global business network working towards the vision of a maritime industry free of corruption. Alongside BW Epic Kosan, BW LPG, Hafnia and Navigator Gas, BW Group actively supports MACN’s efforts to promote good corporate practices in the maritime industry for tackling bribes, facilitation payments and other forms of corruption.
BW continues to uphold high ethical standards, following strict anti-bribery policies. In October 2025, Dorte Thuesen Christensen, Vice President of Operations and Claims at Hafnia, was appointed Vice-Chair of the MACN Board of Directors, having first been elected to the Board in September 2023.