CESMA PARTICIPATED IN EUROPEAN MARITIME SAFETY CONFERENCE: SAFETY FIRST
The conference took place at EMSA Conference Centre on 08th of December 2025. The Executive Director of EMSA Maja Markovcic Kostelac opened the conference with welcome speech. She mentioned the challenges in the shipping industry coming from the Russian invasion in Ukraine, development in the technology, the necessity to monitor the ship operations, the role of the PSC inspections in improving the safety of navigation. Ships are aging and especially passenger ships, the average age of passenger ships in Europe is 29 years. She also noticed that 70 percent of all incidents with ships involve fishing ships thus creating the need to put more efforts in improving safety of fishing ships.