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The United Nations urges to raise $80M in order to prevent an oil tanker off the west coast of Yemen exploding and causing an environmental disaster.

On Earth Day, April 22, the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) joined the United Nations Global Compact, a global initiative focused on developing, implementing and promoting good corporate sustainability practices.

Critical funding and timely action are needed to prevent the FSO Safer anchored close to Yemen’s coastline from sparking a major oil spill, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the country, David Gressly said.

The Maritime Just Transition Task Force, founded by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Transport Workers’ Federation and the UN Global Compact, announced that the Singapore Maritime Foundation has become its first public program partner.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) set out to strengthen Yemen's oil spill response capability by supporting contingency planning workshops.

Houthis agreed with the United Nations over deal regarding the FSO Safer threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off Yemen's coast.

The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) agreed last month to change its name to the Contact Group on Illicit Maritime Activities in the Western Indian Ocean, after it was decided that piracy off the coast of Somalia was now virtually non-existent.

The UN has co-ordinated a deal in Yemen to unload more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from the rusting FSO Safer tanker and make safe what officials and experts have described as a ticking environmental time bomb.

December 10th marks 73 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In shipping, a particularly vulnerable industry in terms of human right protection, violations are a typical problem across the entire lifecycle of a ship.

UN Security Council recently adopted a resolution to combat the continuing threat of piracy off the coast of Somalia.