Synopsis

A stevedore suffered sickness and disorientation after handling cans containing fumigant while discharging cargo at No 3 Alexander berth in the Port of Liverpool from the general cargo vessel Thorco Angela*.

Bolivia* is a landlocked country located in western-central South America and its cargoes are routed eastwards through Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay to the Atlantic by the Paraguay-Paraná waterway.

Norway-funded Carib-SMART Preparatory Phase Programme will enable Caribbean SIDS maritime sector to build-back better after pandemic

From 20 to 29 April the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 105) adopted a resolution to facilitate the urgent evacuation of seafarers from the war zone area in and around the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as a result of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine.

IMO’s mission

A milestone has been reached at Port of Kapellskär for connection of Finnlines services to onshore power. In 2023, Finnlines will introduce two brand new Superstar-class vessels on the Kapellskär-Långnäs-Naantali route. These vessels will connect to onshore power at the quay and will also use automooring, resulting in reduced emissions when vessels are in port.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has urged States to take action to achieve entry into force of the Cape Town fishing vessel safety agreement.  This was reported by IMO in a communiqué on 27 April.

Of this IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim said: ‘We cannot afford to be complacent when it comes to addressing the safety of fishers and fishing vessels.’

A major project to tackle bioinvasions by organisms which can build up on ships’ hulls and other marine structures saw activities slow down during the Covid-19 pandemic but is on track to meet its targets.  This was reported by IMO on 22 April.

April 20, 2022 at 7:00 AM EDT

On 21 April, the IMO media service announced that South Africa had become the 17th signatory* to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct (DCoC).

In 2017 the Jeddah Amendment was adopted to broaden the scope of the DcoC, which was developed and adopted in 2009 by countries in the Western Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden as an important tool to combat piracy and armed robbery against ships in the region.