This year’s Day of the Seafarer campaign, lead by the IMO, is one that particularly resonates with of all of us who work at Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI). On June 25th, 2016, the ‘At Sea for ...
The Importance of Day of the Seafarer, 2016
Piracy on the Increase in Nigeria
As the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) currently visits Nigeria to audit the country’s maritime industry, we take a look at how piracy is affecting the region and those that work at ...
Joint press release: ITF and SRI chart a course on maritime human rights
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI) report progress being made on the urgent issue of the criminalisation of seafarers. This follows the ...
Boosting regional maritime security coordination in west and central Africa
Source: IMO What's New A regional workshop organized by IMO, in cooperation with the Government of Angola, is being held in Luanda, Angola (24-27 March), to discuss the implementation of the Code of ...
Secretary-General promotes Maritime Ambassador scheme in Guatemala
Source: IMO What's New IMO Secretary-General Sekimizu on Tuesday (24 March) continued his central America tour with a visit to Guatemala, where he met the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador ...
El Salvador signs technical cooperation agreement with IMO
Source: IMO What's New A new agreement on supporting the Republic of El Salvador to implement IMO treaties was signed in San Salvador on Monday (23 March). IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu, who is ...
IMO launches online surveys on ballast water management systems
Source: IMO Press Briefings All stakeholders involved in the testing, approval, fitting and operation of ballast water management systems (BWMS) are being invited to complete online surveys, as a ...
Call for papers: ShipArc 2015
Source: IMO Press Briefings International Conference on Safe and Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic Environment (ShipArc 2015), 25-27 August 2015, WMU, Malmö, Sweden The International ...
Ship routeing measures to protect Australia’s Coral Sea agreed
Source: IMO Press Briefings International Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue (NCSR), 2nd session, 9-13 March, 2015 New ships routeing measures aimed at protecting ...
IMO-IOM discuss joint database on unsafe mixed migration by sea
Source: IMO What's New As a follow up to the outcomes of the inter-agency High-level Meeting to Address Unsafe Mixed Migration by Sea held at IMO Headquarters, London last week (4-5 March), Mr. Irfan ...
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