IMO Secretary-General Speech on Launch of the GloMEEP Global Industry Alliance to Support Low-Carbon Shipping

It is my pleasure to welcome you this morning to what I believe is a landmark event – not just in terms...

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim Visits Hapag-Lloyd

Kitack Lim, the secretary-general of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO), recently visited Hapag-Lloyd in Hamburg. On his agenda: The Fleet Support Center, which has centrally coordinated and systematically optimized the operatio

OPEC secretary-general expects oil inventories to fall by Q2

OPEC expects to see global oil inventories fall by the second quarter of this year in response to producers’ agreement to cut output, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said on Thursday.

IMO Secretary-General speaks out against regional emission trading system

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has written to senior European officials expressing his concern that including shipping in the European Union’s Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shippin

IMO Secretary-General Emeritus joins judging panel for Seatrade Maritime Awards

The IMO Secretary-General Emeritus, Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, has confirmed he is to join the prestigious line-up ...

New IMO secretary-general sets out his agenda

Kitack Lim of South Korea has issued a message outlining his priorities as incoming secretary -general of the International Maritime Organization, a post he assumed on January 1 following endorsement of his mid-2015 election by member states at the IMO As

Another BWM sign-up at IMO Assembly, where new secretary-general confirmed

It now seems a racing certainty that IMO’s Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention will come into force in late November 2016 after Morocco yesterday became the latest control to formally ratify the legislation, with Finland poised to follow suit. ...