The Chamber's role is threefold

• To provide members with comprehensive and up-to-date information relevant to their business.
• To formulate industry policy, in consultation with members, in order to protect and promote the interests of British shipping.
• To launch, co-ordinate and pursue initiatives to acheive policy objectives. 

 

The Chamber is recognised by the Government, EU institutions and other international organisations as the focal point for consultation with the British shipping industry on regulatory and other key developments, thus giving it advance notice of forthcoming changes. The Chamber has a well-developed mechanism for promulgating relevant information throughout the industry; complementary electronic methods of disseminating information are being developed.

The Chamber also produces a portfolio of publications.

The Chamber has close working contacts with many Government Departments, enabling it to press the industry's case throughout the UK's corridors of power. Good links are also maintained with other maritime-related industry organisations, with maritime trade unions, and with City of London institutions.

Reflecting the international market in which British shipping companies trade, the Chamber has cultivated links with a broad range of European and international organisations - governmental and non-governmental - whose activities have an influence on members' businesses.

All these enable the Chamber both to advance the cause of British shipping and to advise individual member companies on specific matters or processes.