InterManager IMO Updates

Practitioners of ship management face an increasingly difficult challenge of having to cope with managing information flowing from an expanding regulatory agenda. In this section InterManager provides several value-adding info streams:

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• Request for comments
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Our high level view of what’s on happening on the regulatory radar screen will hopefully alert members to the new initiatives to watch out for and point you in the right direction if you need to find out more.

We are also keen to share information on how members are coping with new regulatory demands at the ‘coalface’ so to speak. We invite members and other interested parties to comment and contribute to this section of the InterManager website!

Archive for November, 2009

IMO Council Elections

The status quo in IMO representation is retained in the current elections conducted at the IMO Assembly meeting in London. It continues the regime of a low level of representation across Africa and South America and an over representation amongst the EU.

The Council is the executive of IMO and is responsible, under the Assembly, for supervising the work of the Organization. Between sessions of the Assembly the Council performs all the functions of the Assembly, except the function of making recommendations to Governments on maritime safety and pollution prevention which is reserved for the Assembly.

The Council is elected by the Assembly for a two-year term.
Liberia contributes 8.6% to the IMO annual budget but failed to achieve sufficient votes to gain a position in the new Council.

Council members for the 2009-10 biennium in three categories of voting are as follows.

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 and United states

Category (b): 10 other States with the largest interest in international seaborne trade:

Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden

Category (c): 20 States not elected under (a) or (b) above which have special interests in maritime transport or navigation, and whose election to the Council will ensure the representation of all major geographic areas of the world:

Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia , Malta, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey

The top ten contributors for 2008 were assessed as follows (the figures show the amount payable in £s and as a percentage of the total budget):

Panama – 4,683,032 – 19.20
Liberia – 2,100,248 – 8.61
Bahamas – 1,227,968 – 5.03
United Kingdom – 1,146,457 – 4.70
Greece – 1,000,898 – 4.10
Marshall Islands – 996,598 – 4.08
Singapore – 994,487 – 4.08
Japan – 841,854 – 3.45
China – 797,893 – 3.27
United States -790,016 – 3.24

The attached report covers key achievements of IMO in the last two years.

Key points of opening address to 26th IMO Assembly (59.45 kB)

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Date: 2011-06-07

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Anti-Piracy Planning Chart

The UKHO has produced an Anti‐Piracy Planning Chart as part of an initiative driven by the EU Naval Force. The chart, numbered Q6099, covering the Gulf Of Aden, south of the Horn of Africa is designed to collate all relevant information for the area and to raise awareness. The chart has the transit corridors marked, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Dubai reporting boundaries, instructions to avoid becoming a victim and telephone numbers in the case that a ship is attacked.

The chart is to be provided free of charge.

Shipmanagers that wish to acquire the chart will need to contact: theMaritime Security Centre – Horn of Africa (MSC-HOA) postmaster@mschoa.org

Anti Piracy Planning Chart Q6099 (1.79 MB)

Downloads: 5
Date: 2011-06-07

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