IMO’s Jan de Boer has delivered the opening presentation on the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks at a meeting at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam (2 April) organized by the Netherlands Maritime Law Association and attended by some 150 lawyers and transport professionals, including seven Court Judges.

The Nairobi Convention was adopted at an IMO international conference held in Kenya in 2007 and is set to enter into force on 14 April 2015. The Convention will provide the legal basis for States to remove, or have removed, shipwrecks that may have the potential to affect adversely the safety of lives, goods and property at sea, as well as the marine environment.