The Global Maritime Forum (GMF) has 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 IMO 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.
GMF CEO Johannah Christsen said: “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. That work continued in 2025, even as the environment around it became more difficult.”
The Impact Report can be read here.
