IMO’s Fredrik Haag is in Nairobi, Kenya, with IMO regional coordinator Mr. John Paul Muindi, for a three-day regional workshop (18-20 November), on the London Protocol, with the aim of sensitising relevant authorities to the implications of ratifying, implementing and enforcing the treaty, which regulates the dumping of waste at sea from ships.
Participants attending represent maritime administrations and the environmental authorities from the Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania. The workshop is being hosted by the Kenya Maritime Authority and is being implemented with support from the Secretariat of the Nairobi Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region as well as support from the United Kingdom, who are providing an expert lecturer.