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IMO has updated the United Nations Bonn Climate Change Conference (5-15 June) on its work towards adopting a revised Strategy to reduce GHG emissions from shipping.

On 30th May, the United Nations started an operation to remove more than 1 million barrels of oil from the FSO Safer, which has been moored about nine kilometers off Yemen’s Ras Isa peninsula since 1988 and could explode or break up at any time.

According to UN's Secretary-General, António Guterres, the Russian Federation will continue its participation in another 60 days.

The UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2023 examines the world's ocean economy and explores how it can be driven towards a sustainable future.

The United Kingdom and the Netherlands co-hosted an online pledging event last week to raise funds for the UN plan to prevent a catastrophic oil spill from the FSO Safer, the decaying tanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast.

According to International news, on Tuesday 25th April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov renewed threats of abandoning the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement that allows the safe wartime export of agricultural products from besieged Ukrainian ports.

IMO announced that it urges Member States to contribute equipment to help UN-led efforts to prevent a possible catastrophic oil spill from the FSO SAFER, an ageing and rapidly decaying floating storage offshore (FSO) unit moored 4.8 nautical miles off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.

Boskalis through its subsidiary SMIT Salvage has reached an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the oil removal from the FSO Safer moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast.

The IMO Legal Committee, 110th session, that took place 21-26 March, 2023, welcomed the adoption of the Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships, on 7 December 2022, by the General Assembly of the United Nations.  

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim was updated on the Black Sea Grain initiative, during a meeting 22 March 2023 with Mr. Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti of Kuwait, United Nations Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative.