International Maritime Organization (IMO)

The Subject “International Maritime Organization (IMO)” belongs to the following Online Higher Educational Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Logistics Courses: Maritime transport, Multimodal, Transport in Africa.

Diplomas: Foreign Trade, International Transport.

Masters (MIB): International Transport, Transport in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade.

Doctorate (DIB): Global Logistics, World Trade.

Learning materials in Organización Marítima Internacional Organization maritime internationale Organização Marítima Internacional.

Area of Knowledge: Foreign Trade - Incoterms® 2020 - Asia-Africa Growth Corridor.

Trade Facilitation - Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) - Revised Kyoto Convention - International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods (UNECE).

International Maritime Organization (IMO).

The United Nations (NU) body in charge of ensuring the maritime safety and avoiding the maritime pollution generated by the ships is the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

In order to fulfill its mission, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) establishes a series of fair and effective rules (conventions), applicable at a global level, related to the safety and protection of the maritime transport.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) offers to the main agents of the maritime transport (ship-owners...) a sectoral regulatory framework.

The rules and regulations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) cover all the sectors related to the Maritime Transport: ship design and construction, manning, scrapping, ship-owners...

About the international maritime transport:

1. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that 80% of the global transport is carried out by sea;
2. Nowadays, the international maritime transport is the most efficient, safe and economic type for the vast majority of exported goods.

Creation of the International Maritime Organization (IMO): 1958

The main purpose of the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code, which replaces the Code of Safe Practices for Solid Bulk Cargoes (BC Code), is to facilitate the safe stowage and transport of solid bulk cargoes by providing information on the dangers associated with the transport of certain types of solid bulk cargoes and instructions on the procedures to be adopted when transporting solid cargoes in bulk is contemplated.

1. The International Chamber of Shipping is associated to the International Maritime Organization (IMO);
2. The International Bureau of Containers and Intermodal Transport (BIC) is an observer member.

Conventions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

1. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS Convention);
2. International agreement on cargo lines;
3. International Convention for Safe Containers;
4. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Convention).

Codes of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

1. International Security Code for Port and Port Facilities (ISPS);
2. Safe code of practice for storage and security of cargo (CSS Code);
3. IMO / ILO / UNECE Code of Practice on the packing of transport units (CTU Code);
4. International code for the protection of ships and port facilities (ISPS Code);
5. International maritime code for solid bulk cargoes (IMSBC Code);
6. International Maritime Code of Dangerous Goods (IMDG Code);
7. International code for the protection of ships and port facilities (ISPS Code).

Member countries of the International Maritime Organization (IMO): Albania, Germany, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong (China), Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (China), Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Korea, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, San Marino, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Somalia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, East Timor, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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