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Syllabus of the Subject - International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

1. Introduction to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
2. Maritime Security
   1. Transport of goods and containers
   2. Cargo securing (packing)
   3. Fire protection
   4. Navigation
   5. Radio communications, search and rescue
   6. Stability and compartmentalisation
   7. Safety rules for the different types of vessels
   8. Maritime cyber risk
3. International maritime transport facilitation
   1. Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL)
   2. Electronic commerce applied to the maritime transport facilitation
4. Maritime protection and piracy
   1. Piracy and armed robbery perpetrated against ships
   2. Fight against piracy in West Africa
   3. Djibouti Code of Conduct
5. IMO Integrated Global Maritime Information System (GISIS)
6. Conventions of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
7. Codes of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

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Description of the Subject - International Maritime Organisation (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 Organisation (IMO).

In order to fulfil its mission, the International Maritime Organisation (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 Organisation (IMO) offers to the main agents of the maritime transport (ship-owners...) a sectoral regulatory framework.

The rules and regulations of the International Maritime Organisation (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 Organisation (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 Organisation (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 Organisation (IMO)
2. The International Bureau of Containers and Intermodal Transport (BIC) is an observer member

Conventions of the International Maritime Organisation (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 Organisation (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 Organisation (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, Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Eritrea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States of America, Estonia, Ethiopia, Russian Federation, Fiji, the Philippines, Finland, France, Gabon, the Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Iceland, Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Syria, Czech Republic, Republic of Korea, Moldova, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Tanzania, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, San Marino, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Suriname, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong (China), Faroe Islands, Macao (China)

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