Maritime Safety: IMO
Shipping is perhaps the most
international of all the world's great industries - and one of the most
dangerous. It has always been recognized that the best way of improving safety
at sea is by developing international regulations that are followed by all
shipping nations.
IMO's first task when it came into being
in 1959 was to adopt a new version of the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), the most important of all treaties dealing with
maritime safety.
IMO has also developed and adopted
international collision regulations and global standards for seafarers, as well
as international conventions and codes relating to search and rescue, the
facilitation of international maritime traffic, load lines, the carriage of
dangerous goods and tonnage measurement.
The Maritime Safety Committee is IMO's
senior technical body on safety-related matters. It is aided in its work by a
number of Sub-Committees.
