A Unified ‘Asian Voice’

Singapore’s future as a leading international maritime centre, shipping regulation, piracy, armed robbery, and Greenhouse Gas emissions were all addressed in the message given by

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War Risks and Piracy Clauses Ready

Following a second meeting of the BIMCO War Risks and Piracy Clauses Working Group in Paris, work on the revision of CONWARTIME 2004, VOYWAR 2004,

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The Role of ReCAAP

The surge in maritime piracy and robbery in Southeast Asia that followed the Asian Financial Crisis led to the signing ReCAAP. This paper looks at the current state of the ...

IMO Secretary General to Visit Jamaica

Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization, Mr Koji Sekimizu, will spearhead a delegation of IMO representatives to Jamaica at the end of this month. IMO Secretary General to Visit Jamaica Secretary ...

IMO adopt fishing boat safety rules

CAPETOWN –– A two-day diplomatic conference that opened here Tuesday is expected to adopt an agreement on implementing the provisions of the 1993 protocol relating to a UN convention for ...

Shock in Store at Intermanager AGM

The forthcoming Intermanager AGM in Copenhagen will be treated to a mixture of sexual demons, graphic violence and explosive action……but all in a book whose sales profits will benefit global ...

New Lifeboat Policy

The cruise industry is to adopt new safety measures to help familiarise staff with the loading of lifeboats, it was announced today Cruise lines adopt new lifeboat policy By Oliver Smith, The ...

“Accident Zero”

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has praised the safety record of the Turkish Straits VTS and encouraged IALA and VTS operators to undertake an initiative in which ports, harbours, straits and ...

Going Public

In line with an agreement sponsored by the IMO, manufacturers of ECDIS equipment are preparing to render public information on the latest versions of the software used to operate their ...

PHL Ratifies MLC

The Philippines became the 30th member-state of the international Labor Organization (ILO) that ratified the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) of 2006 on Wednesday. PHL becomes 30th state to ratify maritime labor convention By ...
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