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Peru hosts World Maritime Day Parallel Event

NIMASA moves to bridge Nigerias gap in IMO White List

MPA Singapore Circular 19 of 2013 Maintenance, testing and inspection of fire protection systems and firefighting systems and appliances

Deadline looms for public input on shipping s administrative requirements

BIMCO President on the State of the Shipping Industry

What to do with HME cargo residues which cannot be discharged into the sea

IACS Chairman calls for evidence-based assessment of ship efficiency

IACS to supporty IMO efforts for sustainability

Sustainable Development: IMO's contribution beyond Rio+20 On 26 September 2013, IMO marks the 36th celebration of World Maritime Day. This year's theme is: "Sustainable Development: IMO's contribution beyond Rio+20".In his World Maritime Day message, IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu said that maritime transport was central to sustainable development, as the world's only really reliable, global, cost-effective and energy-efficient mass transportation method for energy, materials, foods and industrial products."The maritime transportation system itself must, therefore, ensure that its development is also sustainable," Mr. Sekimizu said, adding that this blanket term included not just the operation of ships, but all the activities that are vital to support shipping, such as the operation of maritime traffic management systems and global communication systems, ports and multi-modal connections are all components of this multi-faceted sector."Shipbuilding and classification, ship registry and administration, ship finance, ship repairing, ship recycling, the education and training of seafarers, are all part of the system - as, indeed, are search and rescue services, maritime security agencies, coast guards and maritime law enforcement agencies and many others, too. They all have a part to play in defining and achieving a sustainable Maritime Transportation System," Mr. Sekimizu said."Because the Maritime Transportation System is so ...

On IMO World Maritime Day The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has called for all future proposals for environmental regulation that impact on ships to be subjected to a full and proper cost benefit analysis before adoption by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).ICS is using the occasion of IMO World Maritime Day to explain its views on sustainable shipping, and has produced a special brochure for maritime policy makersICS has set out how the shipping industry supports the goals for sustainable development agreed by world leaders at last year's United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development.ICS Secretary General, Peter Hinchliffe explained: "International shipping directly facilitates the growth of world trade, economic development, and the improvement of global living standards - including amongst the billion or more people that do not yet have access to electricity."In June 2012, world leaders attending the United Nations 'Rio + 20' Summit onSustainable Development agreed that 'poverty eradication is the greatest globalchallenge and indispensible to sustainable development'.As a follow up to the goals agreed by the UNSummit, IMO is now committed to producingsustainable development goals for theinternational shipping industry, an objectivewhich ICS fully supports.The international shipping industry directly facilitatesthe growth of world trade, economic developmentand the ...