Tag: IMO

Officials from the IMO recently completed a fact-finding mission to the Ethiopian Maritime Training Institute (EMTI)

IMO's Chris Trelawny has visited the Maritime Trade Information Sharing Centre (MTISC-GoG)

  Ratifying the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution will allow Fiji to be fully compensated for pollution damage caused by oil spills from fuel carried in ships' bunkers, The Fiji Times ONLINE reports. These were the comments of Ministry of Transport deputy secretary Lui Naisara as he presented his submission on the convention to the Standing Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs. Currently, Fiji's non-party status to the convention means the country and people affected by pollution damage from ships' bunkers spills cannot claim compensation. "Fiji will only be able to fully utilise the compensation for pollution damage framework under the IMO Bunker Convention, 2001, once it becomes a party to the convention," Mr Naisara said. He explained the convention applied to damage caused by oil spills from bunker ships including any damage to the territorial seas and exclusive economic zones of State Parties. Source: The Fiji Times ONLINEIn the start, I was frank with you propecia before and after has changed my subsistence. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is fabulous to sit.

In July 2015, RS received the final report of GBS verification audit which contained the recommendation to IMO to confirm...

Working together is key to improving the transport and logistics supply chain is the headline message from the 2015 Global Shippers Forum

Seychelles placed on the international maritime stage as the island nation moves to IMO white list

Mediterranean crisis continues The global shipping industry, represented by a wide cross section of international shipowners' associations and seafarers' unions, has collectively updated the industry's Guidelines on Large Scale Rescue Operations at Sea.This is in response to the continuing crisis in the Mediterranean, in which merchant ships and their civilian crews have so far assisted in the rescue of over 50,000 people. But the Guidelines are also applicable to other regions where ships may have to assist with rescue operations involving large numbers migrants or refugees, including South East Asia.The new Guidelines update those originally produced by the International Chamber of Shipping at the end of 2014, but now take account of the considerable recent experience gained by shipping companies and their crews.The Guidelines are now supported by a wide range of maritime industry organisations, including the European Community Shipowners' Associations, the Asian Shipowners' Forum, the International Transport Workers' Federation, the European Transport Workers' Federation, Intercargo, Intertanko, IPTA, and InterManager.An important aspect of the revised Guidelines is the additional attention given to ensuring that rescued people are looked after safely once they have been embarked on board commercial ships, whilst also ensuring the safety, security and welfare of the seafarers ...

Captain Mark and IMO's Jo Espinoza-Ferrey, signed an agreement to renew the existing protocol

Morocco has become a key area for maritime search and rescue (SAR) training and has been designated to host the regional centre

A two-day inaugural Future-Ready Shipping 2015 conference is being co-organized by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore