Tag: IMO

  • Higher Standards of Private Security

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    The International Standards Organisation will present a draft proposal for the selection and use of Armed Guards to the IMO this week. While the security industry prepares for yet another […]

  • UN calls for tougher prosecution of pirates

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    Acknowledging that international cooperation had helped bring about a sharp reduction in attacks at sea, the Security Council stressed the need for comprehensive action to eradicate piracy and condemned in […]

  • Safety at Sea for Pakistan

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    Since 1980, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), a specialized agency of UN, is celebrating World Maritime Day each year in the last week of September. IMO selected 27th September as World […]

  • IMO threatens to blacklist Sokhna Port

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    The International Maritime Organization (IMO) threatened Tuesday to put Sokhna Port on its blacklist of unreliable ports as striking workers closed the port for the sixth consecutive day. “We now […]

  • Bahrain to host global maritime event

    Bahrain has been selected as the venue for the World Maritime Day Parallel Event 2012 by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council, said a senior official. “We are honoured that […]

  • IMO adopt fishing boat safety rules

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    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 […]

  • IMO Revise ECDIS Course

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    The IMO’s Electronic Chart Display and Information System Model Course (1.27) has been revised to ensure that navigators understand ECDIS in the context of navigation and can demonstrate all competencies […]

  • “Accident Zero”

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    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

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    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 […]

  • ECDIS Challenges

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    Despiter the introduction compulsory requirement for certain vessels to carry Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS), the experience gleaned from the ECDIS Revolution series of conferences has made evident the fact […]

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