ABSTRACT
Evaluates the implementation of projects for which International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the executing agency, and generally reviews IMO’s technical assistance programmes. Established in 1965 as a subsidiary body of the Council, and formally institutionalized by means of an amendment to the IMO Constitution in 1984. A new IMO department of partnerships and projects, established in February 2020, was tasked with addressing global issues impacting international shipping, such as marine plastic litter, biofouling and decarbonization. In December 2019 the 31st IMO assembly adopted a resolution aimed at achieving a barrier-free working environment for women in the maritime sector. In September 2010 IMO inaugurated a seafarers’ rights international centre, located at the London headquarters of the international transport workers’ federation. IMO’s online global integrated shipping information system reports on, inter alia, fleets, cargoes, maritime and port security, maritime casualties, pollution prevention, and also maintains an inter-agency platform for information sharing on migrant smuggling by sea.
