In a year when promoting and empowering women is a dominant theme throughout the maritime community, IMO hosted a special event at the Nor-Shipping exhibition (6 June) to highlight the some of the challenges – and the solutions – around encouraging women to take up seafaring roles. An all-female panel of experts, with many years’

The first version of the inaugural ‘Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea‘ is published on 5th April 2019 by Human Rights at Sea after the initial drafting session was held in Switzerland on 20-21 March 2019 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. The Declaration was first announced to students in

Today, at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, in the presence of Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, and Edoardo Rixi, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of Italy, Costa Cruises officially took delivery of Costa Venezia, the Italian company’s first ship designed specifically to offer the Chinese market the best of

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has launched a new logo for its Women in Maritime programme, as part of its mission to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Programme lead Helen Buni said: “The IMO Women in Maritime programme supports the participation of women

A fresh annual report from the International Maritime Bureau shows that attacks in West Africa pushed piracy numbers up in 2018. In terms of military and law enforcement, an international operation is not complicated, so what is needed above all is the will to act. According to the bureau’s report, there were 201 incidents reported

Seafarers should enjoy the same sort of working conditions and welfare rights as people who work ashore, UK shipping minister Nusrat Ghani told a meeting at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 16 January. Speaking at the launch of the Apostleship of the Sea’s Life at Sea report, the minister said it was vital to

Since we are processing seafarers to join safely the vessels, the Captain Santa Claus brought us some very nice and cute seafarers teddy bears. Here we go with the thoughts about the Christmas in our company of our new colleague, Miss Andreea Mitrana – intern in our company “My first experience like intern in a

Evolution not revolution. Autonomous and remote-controlled ships are being trialled but seafarers, for now, remain indispensable to safe shipping. These were key takeaways from a special session (3 December) of IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee, which is celebrating its 100th session. Delegates were first treated to a song commemorating IMO’s 70th anniversary (since the Convention establishing