IMO’s Alper Keceli is in Istanbul, Turkey, for the Sub-regional Seminar on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (11-13 November), which has been organized by IMO and is being attended by 24 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Moldova, Turkey and Turkmenistan. The seminar aims to impart a thorough knowledge of the IMO Facilitation Convention and its benefits, promoting the ratification of the FAL Convention and achieving a better understanding of the concept, the processes and procedures that go with use of electronic data interchange and the implementation of the “single window” concept enabling all the information required by public authorities in connection with the arrival, stay and departure of ships, persons and cargo, to be submitted without duplication.