An IMO workshop on effective shoreline clean-up and waste management operations concludes today (18 September) in Libreville, Gabon. Participants from ten French-speaking countries in the region, as well as the oil and gas industry, covered topics such as incorporating shoreline clean-up and waste management into national oil spill contingency plans, spill management and related decision-making processes and waste management and shoreline clean-up techniques. The workshop was organised within the framework of the Global Initiative for West, Central and Southern Africa (the GI WACAF Project), a partnership between IMO and IPIECA, the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues. It was hosted by Gabon’s Department of Environmental Affairs.