Guyana
has signed up to a host of IMO treaties supporting safe, secure and
clean international shipping. The treaties
cover a wide variety of topics including marine pollution, dumping waste
at sea and responding to pollution incidents involving hazardous and
noxious substances. Guyana ratified two key IMO measures designed to
preserve bio-diversity – the Ballast Water Management
Convention and another on use of harmful anti-fouling systems on ships
hulls – as well as others covering unlawful acts against the safety of
navigation and removing wrecks from the seabed. It also signed four instruments covering liability and
compensation.
In all, Guyana ratified eleven IMO instruments. H.E. Mr. Frederick Hamley Case, High Commissioner of Guyana, met IMO
Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London (20 February) to deposit the instruments of accession.