A national workshop aimed at boosting port State control and flag State implementation of the Anti-Fouling Convention is being held in Egypt (16-17 September). The workshop aims to raise awareness of the implications of implementing and enforcing the convention. Technical issues, such as environmentally sound practices for the disposal of waste generated in applying and removing anti-fouling systems, will also be discussed. The workshop is being hosted by the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT). It has been organized under a Memorandum of Understanding between IMO, the Government of Egypt and the AASTMT. IMO’s Theofanis Karayannis is delivering the technical content. Egypt became a party to the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships in 2012.