The prestigious annual graduation ceremony for students at the World Maritime University (WMU) took place on Sunday (1 November) in Malmö, Sweden, when WMU Chancellor and IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu conferred postgraduate degrees on the class of 2015. In total, there are 202 graduates in the class of 2015, including the M.Sc programmes in Malmö, and Dalian and Shanghai, China, as well as the distance-learning Postgraduate Diploma graduates. Overall, the 2015 graduates represent over 40 countries. In his graduation message, Mr Sekimizu urged the students to continue to support the ideals and objectives of IMO. The Guest of Honour was Kitack Lim, IMO Secretary-General elect, who is an alumnus of WMU and will become the first Chancellor and first IMO Secretary-General to hold an M.Sc degree from the University.