IMO 2014 World Maritime Day theme launched
2014 WMD theme is 'IMO conventions: effective implementation' IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has launched this year's World Maritime Day theme, "IMO conventions: effective implementation", expressing the hope that the year would see genuine progress towards effective and global implementation of all IMO conventions.Speaking at a reception to mark the launch of the theme, at the end of the first day of the first session of the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC), Mr. Sekimizu said the theme provided an opportunity to shine a spotlight on those IMO treaty instruments which have not yet entered into force, as well as wider and more effective implementation of measures already agreed or in place."The adoption of an IMO convention cannot be the end of a process. A conference is held, the text agreed, there are handshakes all round. But it's not the end of the process. It should be just the end of the beginning. Because an IMO convention is only worthwhile and meaningful if it is effectively and universally implemented," Mr. Sekimizu said.Treaties still to enter into force include the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004; the Hong Kong International Convention for the ...
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