IMO adopts new technologies for greener shipping

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Lagos – The Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization, IMO, Kitack Lim, said the agency has adopted New Technologies for Greener shipping as the theme for this year’s world maritime celebration.

Lim stated this while speaking at the opening of the Eighth Session of the siltation and drying up of Polobubo (Tsekelewu) community waterways by NPDC/Elcrest past and ongoing dredging activities, which is about to cut us off from the rest of the world.”

Sub-Committee on Ship Design.

He said that despite the ongoing pandemic and the difficult circumstances, the work of this organisation has continued in an exemplary fashion, and so has the entire maritime transport. “I sincerely hope that the international community, and shipping, in particular, will remain upbeat and resilient after almost two years of extraordinary sacrifices and challenges,” he said.

He added: “We must also not relent in our efforts to support seafarers to get vaccinations and boosters, to re-join their families and facilitate their access to work and to crew change by engaging with administrations and national authorities and by continuing to work together at the national and international level to recognise them as essential workers and to preserve their rights.”

This year’s World Maritime theme is, “New Technologies for greener shipping”, highlighting IMO’s commitment to support the transition of the maritime sector into a sustainable green future through technological innovation. The theme provides an opportunity for the organisation to focus on the importance of clean maritime transport and the need to build back better and greener in a post-pandemic world.

“It has been almost two years since the last session of your Sub-Committee in February 2020. Despite the delay of this session due to the pandemic, I am pleased to note that the SubCommittee has been taking proactive action and making pragmatic arrangements during the past two years, through a smooth continuation of the work of correspondence groups, an intersessional working group and many informal meetings to prepare for this session.

“Regarding the business at hand for this week, I would firstly like to highlight those two items of work which this SubCommittee is expected to complete at this session,” he stated