Organisations
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News : Norway boosts IMO’s GreenVoyage-2050 GHG project
Partnerships and innovations are essential to combat climate change through reductions in GHG emissions. Norway has provided an additional NOK 40,000,000 (US$4.3. million) to the IMO-Norway GreenVoyage-2050 project, which will support GHG reductions in line with the IMO initial strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. This supports UN SDG 13…
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WMU : Contributing to Sustainable Marine Development Conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
The high-level conference on ”Sustainable Marine Development Towards 2030 and Beyond” was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 5-7 November 2019. Organized by the General Authority for Transport of the Kingdom, the conference highlighted the objectives of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to achieve the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable…
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Universities : WMU Graduation Ceremony 2019
The maritime leaders of tomorrow from over 70 countries graduated from the World Maritime University (WMU). The graduates have received the education required to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in their home countries as well as within the broader maritime and ocean community. They…
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Protecting seas and coasts in Africa workshop in IMO
Designating an IMO Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) is a recognition that the identified area may be vulnerable to potential impacts of international shipping. In a PSSA, associated protective measures can be proposed and adopted, such as ship routeing systems, for example, areas to be avoided by ships or no-anchoring areas.…
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Women bring intelligence and high skills to all fields of the shipping industry
”Women bring intelligence and high skills to all fields of the shipping industry – let’s throw off the bowlines!”. This is the message from Port Captain Basak, one of the latest maritime women being featured by IMO under this year’s World Maritime theme: “Empowering women in the Maritime Community”. Women…
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Towards Protecting Seas And Coasts In Africa
Designating an IMO Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) is a recognition that the identified area may be vulnerable to potential impacts of international shipping. In a PSSA, associated protective measures can be proposed and adopted, such as ship routeing systems, for example, areas to be avoided by ships or no-anchoring areas.…
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Indian seafarers plant trees at root of environmental campaign
It began with all officers, petty officers and ratings being asked to plant a tree during August and September. This resulted in 7,000 new trees. In five years, NUSI intends to plant 100,000 trees across India. NUSI general secretary Abdulgani Serang said: “Our country is facing severe air pollution…
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International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL)
Adoption: 1973 (Convention), 1978 (1978 Protocol), 1997 (Protocol – Annex VI); Entry into force: 2 October 1983 (Annexes I and II). The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) is the main international convention covering prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships from operational or…
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Going the extra nautical mile for vessel safety
IMO’s most important ship safety treaty – SOLAS – provides for safe merchant shipping, covering a wide variety of topics, from ship construction to fire protection, to life-saving appliances and cargo carriage. SOLAS generally applies only to ships above a certain size which make international voyages, but IMO’s efforts to…
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IMO is leading a major global project to combat that threat of Marine biodiversity
Marine biodiversity is under threat from invasive aquatic species, but IMO is leading a major global project to combat that threat and find solutions to this major problem. And that project has just passed two major milestones as two more countries, Indonesia and Mexico, have formed their national task force…
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