The IMO Member State Audit Scheme, set up as a voluntary scheme among flag states, is to be made mandatory, under a plan to institutionalise it, agreed by the IMO Assembly, when it met for its 26th regular session from…

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• IMO Member State Audit Scheme compulsory

    The IMO Member State Audit Scheme, set up as a voluntary scheme among flag states, is to be made mandatory, under a plan to institutionalise it, agreed by the IMO Assembly, when it met for its 26th regular session from… Read at IMO Member State Audit Scheme to be compulsory

• Cyprus participates in the 26th IMO Assembly in London

    The 26th Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is meeting in London, at the IMO Headquarters, from 23 November to 4 December 2009. In the framework of the Assembly there will be a voting process to elect the new members of the 40-member Council of the IMO.

• Security guard: Why flag, matter

    There are now 169 member states which are parties to the IMO Convention. They range from the very familiar major shipping flag states to those which are rather more obscure, and seem to have a rather tentative connection with merchant shipping.

• IMO opens the 26th Meeting with the delegates calling for cooperation against piracy

    The 26th Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) opened on Monday at the IMO Headquarters in London with delegates stressing the needs to strengthen the cooperation and coordination on the move against the piracy on Indian Ocean. Most of 169 IMO member states attended the opening ceremony of assembly

• IMO Assembly elects new 40-member Council

    The Assembly of the International Maritime Organization has elected the following States to be Members of its Council for the 2010-2011 biennium: Category (a)??? 10 States with the largest interest in providing international shipping services: China, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Panama, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States.

• Nigeria: Maritime Safety – FG signs pact with LRIT IMSO

    The Federal Government yesterday took step to link up with the global shipping communication network as the government yesterday in London, UK signed the Long Range Identification and Tracking System,(LRIT) Services Agreement with the International Mobile Satellite Organisation (IMSO). Nigeria was represented at the signing ceremony by the Director General

• Cyprus re-elected to IMO Council

    Cyprus has been reelected to the Council of the International Maritime Organisation for the next two years, with the support of 134 member states out of 153, securing the second biggest number of votes after Singapore during the 26th IMO General Assembly in London. “This reflects Cyprus’ importance in the

• Indonesia re-elected as IMO Council Member

    Indonesia has been re-elected as a Category C member of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the period of 2009-2011 collecting 132 out of 153 votes. The election was done at the 26th IMO Assembly in London on November 26, 2009, the third secretary of the Indonesian embassy in London,

• The lack of port calls for new personal training program in Canada

    The increasing number of port professional positions and the lack of qualified candidates to fill them has prompted a Canadian agency to launch a new training scheme. Read at Shortage of port personel prompts new training scheme in Canada

• Cargo tracking system to improve safety at sea

    The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Abdulsalam Mohamed, has said that the Cargo Tracking Note scheme will help ensure transparency in the maritime industry. The NPA chief made the clarification on the newly introduced Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) scheme over the weekend. He said that the objective

• Steel: min 20 percent share sale plan in SAIL

    The government has approved a follow-on public offering of 20 percent of state run Steel Authority of India Ltd, the steel minister said on Wednesday. The federal government owns nearly 86 percent of SAIL. “The scheme has been approved internally. The scheme is for disinvestment and public offer of shares totalling 20

• BoC with inspection procedures of the bulk and break bulk cargoes

    The Bureau of Customs is all set to implement the pre-shipment inspection scheme on bulk and break bulk cargoes saying four global cargo surveyors have been accredited to help curb rampant smuggling on these kinds of imports.

• Graig Ship Management expands training program

    Cardiff-based Graig Ship Management is widening its training scheme by sponsoring 20 Vietnamese officer cadets. Under an agreement with Ho Chi Minh City-based University of Transport and Dutch education provider STC Graig Ship Management will sponsor ten 2nd year and… Read at Graig Ship Management widens training scheme

• BHP Billiton Names Ex-Ford boss Nasser as Chairman

     Global miner BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc has named veteran former Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Jac Nasser as its new chairman to succeed Don Argus, it said on Tuesday.Argus will retire in early 2010. Nasser joined the BHP Billiton board as a non-executive director in 2006 and is a member of the

• Korean Register to verify emissions

    The Korean Register of Shipping (KR) – an IACS member classification society – has been authorized by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea as a verification body for its pilot greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme. The scheme was launched on 1 January 2010 to provide a base