The joint European Union/African,
Caribbean and Pacific Group of States project on "Support to Maritime
Transport Sector in Africa" is to run to the end of 2016, beyond its
planned March 2016 completion date, due to implementation delays in some
of the beneficiary countries caused by the Ebola crisis. IMO is one of
three implementing partners in the programme, through its FlagPort WACAF
project team. The decision to extend was taken at a two-day meeting of
the project steering committee in Brussels (2-3 June) at which IMO’s
project team presented progress reports on flag state implementation of
IMO conventions and on port state control.