Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers

Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers

Abbreviation ICS
Formation 1911[1]
Legal status Chartered Institute
Headquarters London, UK
Membership 4,000+
Member's designations AICS (obsolete)
MICS (Member)[2]
FICS (Fellow)
President Bruce Ogilvy FICS
Immediate Past President R B Woods CBE
Chief Executive Julie Lithgow
Website www.ics.org.uk

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) is a professional and learned society for all members of the commercial shipping industry worldwide. After being founded in 1911 in London, the ICS was granted a Royal Charter in 1920.[3]

The Institute provides the shipping industry with highly qualified professionals being the only internationally recognised professional body in the commercial maritime sphere.[4] It represents shipbrokers, ship managers and agents throughout the world with 24 branches in key locations and comprises 4,000 individual Members and Fellows.

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