Given the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, some stakeholders wish to engage in undertakings in addition to their obligations. Thus, the shipping companies' signatories to this Initiative affirm their willingness to contribute to the protection and enhancement of the marine environment, with sustainable development in mind.

Signatories to this Initiative undertake, voluntarily and in addition to their regulatory obligations, to implement specific actions in all or some of the following areas:
- Protection of cetaceans
- Reduction of the underwater noise impact of ships
- Decrease of atmospheric pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions
- Strengthening of ties with the scientific sector
- Fight against invasive species
- Optimisation of energy performance
- Specific actions by passenger ship companies
- Governance of the initiative

"Sustainability is an important factor for us at Wasaline and as we have the first passenger ferry to be built with the Clean Design notation, this Initiative will be supported nicely by the new ferry," says Peter Ståhlberg, Managing Director of Wasaline.

The Clean Design for new vessels is proof of voluntary compliance with additional pollution
prevention measures and upcoming environmental regulations.
Maritime transport is essential to the global economy. It accounts for more than 90% of world trade in terms of volume. It is an efficient mode of transport from an environmental point of view. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the organisation of reference for maritime transport measures.

The SAILS Initiative for Good Practices in Maritime Transport for the Protection of the Marine and Coastal Environment is a French initiative in the field of sustainable maritime transport.
www.ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr/charte-sails-bonnes-pratiques-du-transport-maritime-protectiondu-milieu-marin-et-du-littoral.