Whats New 2019
Women in port management
What do successful, well-run ports and female empowerment have in common? Both can make a significant contribution to sustainable economic development. IMO is providing support to eight female officials from developing countries, with an emphasis on Pacific Small Island Developing States, attending a Port Senior Management Programme held at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) in Nahalal, Israel, (6-19 November). more...
Strengthening regional cooperation to enhance maritime security
States in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden area, meeting at a high-level regional meeting in Mombasa, Kenya (13-14 November) have adopted a plan of action to ensure better coordination of regional efforts to enhance maritime security. more...
IMO helps train future leaders in maritime policy
An effective maritime transport system is an important foundation for
sustainable development. But it needs proper planning and a solid policy
foundation. So, as part of its efforts to help deliver the global Sustainable Development
Goals, IMO encourages and assists its Member States to devise national maritime
transport policies. A seminar on maritime transport policy, delivered by IMO and the faculty of
the World Maritime University is now an integral part of the curriculum at
IMO’s Malta-based International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) – and the fourth
in the series has just been completed (13-15 November). more...
Towards a national maritime transport policy for Madagascar
Madagascar
is the latest country to benefit from IMO’s work promoting good maritime
governance to support sustainable development. A workshop starting the process
to develop a National Maritime Transport Policy (NMTP) for the country took
place in the capital, Antananarivo (13-15 November). Forty
participants from across government departments took part and decided to
complete a first NMPT
strategy draft in early 2020. more...
Empowering women in search and rescue operations
Training for
African women working in search and rescue (SAR) operations is underway at the
Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Rabat, Morocco (13-15 November).
Thirteen officials* from developing countries and Small Island Developing
States took part in the first regional training course of this kind. The course included a practical
exercise on a rescue boat and provided a platform to discuss how to improve and
enhance the knowledge of African women working in SAR and to provide them with
appropriate tools to manage SAR missions. more...
Understanding fouling
Mediterranean countries are undergoing IMO training on the impacts of anti-fouling systems and ships’ biofouling on the marine environment at a workshop in Valletta, Malta (12-14 November). The event is raising awareness of IMO’s Anti-Fouling Systems (AFS) Convention and Biofouling Guidelines – what it means to implement them, and, in the case of the AFS Convention, the requirements and benefits of ratification and enforcement. more...
Norway boosts IMO's GreenVoyage-2050 GHG project
Partnerships and innovations are essential to combat climate change through reductions in GHG emissions. Norway has provided an additional NOK 40,000,000 (US$4.3. million) to the IMO-Norway GreenVoyage-2050 project, which will support GHG reductions in line with the IMO initial strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. This supports UN SDG 13 on climate action. The project aims to assist countries to implement legal, policy and institutional reforms, build capacity and initiate and promote global efforts to demonstrate and test innovative technical solutions for reducing GHG emissions from shipping. more...
Tackling invasive aquatic species in Jordan
Biofouling is the build-up of aquatic organisms on a ship's underwater hull and structures. It can be responsible for introducing potentially invasive non-native aquatic species to new environments and can also slow a ship down and impact negatively on its energy efficiency. A two-day workshop was held in Aqaba, Jordan (11 to 12 November) to raise awareness of the problem and the impact it is having along the Jordanian coastline. more...
IMO launches online tool to smooth reporting formalities
Streamlining the many administrative procedures necessary when ships enter or leave port is an important element of IMO's work. And now, an important tool used by software developers to create systems for exchanging the relevant data electronically has been made available by IMO online and free of charge. The IMO Compendium is a reference manual containing data sets and the structure and relationships between them, that will enable the IMO Member States to fulfil a mandatory obligation for the reporting formalities for ships, cargo and people on board international shipping to be carried out electronically and in a harmonised way. more...