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world’s seafarers
A message from Secretary-General
Efthimios E. Mitropoulos
The International Maritime Organization has decided shipping industry and, in particular, to encourage
to dedicate this year to you, the world’s seafarers, young people to follow in your footsteps by
by choosing, as the theme for World Maritime Day, becoming the seafarers of tomorrow. We launched
“2010: Year of the Seafarer”. Our intention is to pay that campaign in association with the International
tribute to you, the world’s 1.5 million seafarers – men Labour Organization, the “Round Table” of shipping
and women from all over the globe – for the unique, industry organizations (International Chamber of
and all-too-often overlooked, contribution you make to Shipping, International Shipping Federation, BIMCO,
the wellbeing of all of us. International Association of Independent Tanker
We will do so with deep appreciation, in recognition Owners and International Association of Dry Cargo
of the extraordinary service you render every day of Shipowners) and the International Transport Workers’
your professional lives, frequently under dangerous Federation, all of whom are joining us in celebrating “Our intention
circumstances, in delivering, to the more than the Year of the Seafarer. is to pay
6.5 billion people of the world, the wheat that makes Last, but mostly importantly, we want to convey
our daily bread, the gas and oil that warm our homes to you a clear message that the entire shipping tribute to you,
or move our vehicles and the products we share and
enjoy with our families and friends.
community appreciates and cares for you – as shown
by the efforts we make to ensure that you are fairly
the world’s
At IMO, we are ever-conscious of the important treated when ships on which you serve become 1.5 million
role you play in helping us achieve safe, secure and involved in accidents; are looked after when you are
efficient shipping on clean oceans – the goals that we, abandoned in ports; are not refused shore leave for seafarers
as the United Nations specialized agency charged
with the regulation of international shipping and as a
security purposes; are protected when your work
takes you into piracy-infested areas; and are not left
– men and
member of the global maritime community, have set unaided when you are in distress at sea. women from
ourselves. 1.5 million seafarers serving the daily needs of
And so, we will celebrate this year’s World Maritime more than 6.5 billion citizens of the world! It is a fact all over the
Day theme with much pride in your contribution to
our objectives, to the facilitation of more than 90 per
that goes unnoticed or is taken for granted by most,
but one that should be trumpeted loud and clear.
globe”
cent of the world’s trade, and to sustainable human For seafarers the world over deserve our respect,
development. recognition and gratitude and, during 2010, we at IMO
In so doing, we also seek to reassure you, at are resolved to ensure that the world does take notice
the “sharp end” of the industry, that we, who are of your exceptional role and contribution and of the
responsible for the international regulatory regime and special debt that all of us owe to you. We thank you
who serve shipping from ashore, do understand the for that!
extreme pressures that you face and that, as a result, With best wishes for the Year of the Seafarer – and
we approach our own tasks with a genuine sympathy a safe return home.
for the work that you carry out.
At the same time, we will seek to add impetus
to the “Go to Sea!” campaign, which we launched
in November 2008 to attract new entrants to the
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FROM THE MEETINGS IMO Assembly | 26th session | 23 November – 2 December 2009
The IMO Member State Audit Scheme, participation in which is currently voluntary, is to be
made mandatory under a plan to institutionalize the Scheme agreed by the Organization’s
highest governing body, the Assembly, when it met for its 26th regular session from
23 November to 2 December 2009
The Assembly also updated IMO’s Strategic Plan for institutionalized, mandatory scheme, through the More than 1200 delegates
introduction of appropriate requirements in the packed the IMO debating
the next six years and High-level Action Plan for the
chamber for the 26th Assembly
next two years; agreed the Organization’s budget for relevant mandatory IMO instruments. Amendments
the 2010-2011 biennium and adopted a wide range to these instruments would be adopted in 2013, for
of technical and other resolutions, addressing issues entry into force in January 2015. A resolution on the
Framework and Procedures for the Scheme would
varying from piracy through to guidelines for ships
also be adopted by the IMO Assembly in 2013,
operating in polar waters.
while preparatory work for the commencement of
an institutionalized scheme would be carried out
IMO Member State Audit Scheme
during 2014.
According to the plan adopted by the Assembly The Assembly urged Member States that have not
through resolution A.1018(26), the IMO Member yet volunteered for audits under the current, voluntary,
State Audit Scheme would be phased in as an scheme to do so, so that lessons can continue to
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IMO Assembly | 26th session | 23 November – 2 December 2009
Piracy off the coast of Somalia Code on Alerts and Indicators, 2009
The Assembly adopted a resolution on piracy and armed robbery Intended to provide general design guidance and to promote
against ships in waters off the coast of Somalia, which, among uniformity of type, location and priority for alerts and indicators
other things, condemns and deplores all acts of piracy and armed required by the SOLAS Convention (including relevant
robbery against ships, irrespective of where such acts have performance standards) and by the MARPOL Convention, as well
occurred or may occur. as by other associated instruments and codes, this new Code
Building on resolution A.1002(25), adopted by the Assembly updates, revises and replaces the Code on Alarms and Indicators,
in 2005, the new resolution welcomes the decision, taken on 1995 (resolution A.830(19)).
30 November by the United Nations Security Council (through
resolution 1897 (2009)), to renew, for a period of 12 months, its Bunkers Certificates for ships in bareboat registry
previous authorizations for States and regional organizations co- This resolution aims to provide guidance to the Party responsible
operating with the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) for the issuance of Bunkers Certificates in respect of ships
to enter Somalia’s territorial waters and use all necessary means registered in a bareboat registry (i.e., when a vessel is temporarily
to fight piracy and armed robbery at sea off the Somali coast, permitted to fly the flag of another country while ownership
provided advance notification is given by the TFG to the United remains in the underlying registry), by recommending, in part, that
Nations Secretary-General. all States Parties to the International Convention on Civil Liability
The Assembly also adopted the revised Code of Practice for for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001, recognize that Bunker
the Investigation of the Crimes of Piracy and Armed Robbery Certificates should be issued by the flag State if it is a Party to the
against Ships, updating the Code of Practice adopted by Convention.
resolution A.922(22) in 2001.
Resolution of stowaway cases
Guidelines for ships operating in polar waters This resolution recognizes the need to revise the Guidelines on
These new guidelines are based on the Guidelines for ships the allocation of responsibilities to seek the successful resolution
operating in Arctic ice-covered waters but have been substantially of stowaway cases (resolution A.871(20), adopted in 1997)
updated and extended to cover also the sea area off the to align them with section 4 (on stowaways) of the Annex to
Antarctic. They are intended to be applied to ships constructed the Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic,
on or after 1 January 2011, although Governments are invited to 1965, (FAL Convention) as amended, prescribing standards and
apply the guidelines, as far as possible, before that date. recommended practices on matters relating to stowaways (which
were adopted in 2002 and which entered into force on 1 May
2009 MODU Code 2003).
The new Code revises and updates the Code for the Construction The Maritime Safety and Facilitation Committees were
and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units adopted in 1989 requested to undertake the revision, to reflect developments in
(resolution A.649(16)) and provides an international standard for measures to prevent stowaways, as well as to provide guidance
mobile offshore drilling units of new construction, to facilitate the and recommendations, taking into account the FAL Convention
international movement and operation of these units and ensure provisions on stowaways (i.e measures that may be implemented
a level of safety for them, and for personnel on board, equivalent by vessels for preventing cases involving stowaways).
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FROM THE MEETINGS Sub-Committee on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels’ Safety (SLF) | 52nd SESSION | 25 – 29 January 2010
Sub-Committee addresses
fishing vessel safety
Draft Safety Recommendations for decked fishing vessels of less than 12 metres in
length and undecked fishing vessels were agreed by the Sub-Committee on Stability and
Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels’ Safety (SLF), when it met for its 52nd session
The texts will be submitted to the 87th session of the • development of an agreement on the
Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), in May 2010, implementation of the 1993 Torremolinos Protocol,
for approval and concurrent endorsement by the amending certain of its requirements. Following
International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Food this, countries could consider ratification of the
and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 1993 Torremolinos Protocol under the terms
The safety recommendations, applying to fishing and conditions contained in the agreement
vessels under 12 metres in length, will complement (countries would declare that they accept the
the revised Code of Safety for Fishermen and Fishing 1993 Torremolinos Protocol under the terms of the
Vessels, 2005 (applying to vessels over 24 metres in agreement, when they deposit an instrument of
length), and the Voluntary Guidelines for the Design, ratification); and
Construction and Equipment of Small Fishing Vessels, • development of an Assembly resolution to facilitate
2005 (applying to vessels between 12 and 24 metres the implementation of the 1993 Torremolinos
in length), which were also approved by ILO and FAO. Protocol, under which Parties to the Protocol would
be able to implement the necessary amendments
Implementation options immediately following its entry into force, even
The Sub-Committee discussed the options available before the amendments are formally adopted under
to tackle the lack of sufficient ratifications to the 1993 article 11 of the Protocol and put into force.
Torremolinos Protocol in order to bring this important
treaty on fishing vessel safety into force. In particular, The above agreement would be a new legally binding
the following two options were considered: instrument, offering a firm foundation to implement
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Torremolinos
Protocol under
the terms and
conditions
contained in
the agreement”
the amended Torremolinos Protocol, but Parties on Intact Stability (IS Code), 2008, which will enter into
that have already ratified the Protocol might have to force in July 2010.
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By day, and often late into the night, a team of highly qualified and skilled translators at
IMO translate more than 50,000 pages a year – and the quantity is increasing
As a specialised agency of the United diplomatic, legal and more general contexts.
Nations, IMO adheres to the parent “We are both generalists and specialists,”
organization’s official languages: Arabic, says Eduardo Hernández-Martín, Deputy
Chinese, English, French, Russian Director of the Translation Services at the
and Spanish, of which English, French Conference Division. “You need expertise in
and Spanish are designated “working many different fields.”
languages.” Everything has to be available Nor is this ordinarily a job for ex-mariners
in these three working languages. Given the or maritime administrators. “It is very difficult
ubiquity of English in the maritime sector, the to attract people with a maritime background
bulk of the translation work is from English because they have to be linguists, which is
into French and Spanish. Nevertheless, not just a matter of speaking a language or
countries can submit documents in any of two, but of knowing a language thoroughly
the three working languages and, while most and being able to write a text in your own
of the time they do so in English, there is language as it if were an original,” explains
also a stream of Spanish contributions from one of the IMO experts.
Spain and the Latin American countries, as As in any organization, clearly there is a
well as a similar francophone input. Only career path, but the translators also have
IMO instruments are translated into Arabic, the motivation of contributing to the IMO’s
Chinese and Russian, as well as assembly core objectives and goals. “There is a huge
resolutions, council decisions, and reports of commitment and shared dedication,” says
Ariane Gireud, head of the French Translation
the IMO committees.
Section. “You do your work because you are
Just over 60 years old, IMO began with
committed.”
two working languages of English and
The IMO could hire the most seasoned
French, and added Spanish in 1986. Over
translator from an external berth, but he or
the years, the translators have handled IMO’s translators need diplomatic
she might find it very difficult to absorb the and legal awareness to complement
more than 50 international conventions and
ways and the mores of the organization. their technical knowledge
treaties and a swelling number of codes,
protocols, instruments, recommendations,
guidelines and other documents, which have
to read clearly in the six official languages.
So, what does it take to become an IMO
translator? IMO calls for a university degree
in translation, or in another subject plus a
linguistic qualification. Your mother tongue
must be one of the six official languages,
and you must have an excellent knowledge
of another two, plus translation experience.
Your mother tongue is the one into which
you will be translating. A high standard of
computer literacy is sought. Temporary
translators are one source of recruitment.
It is obvious that all at IMO must possess
a grasp of the terms and issues exercising
the maritime world, but much more is
required than that. As well as technical
terms, translators are obliged to think in the
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training, stability, load lines, so many subjects, agency need something, they can refer to the
and all of them highly technical.” network, the fraternity, of all the translation
Terminology requires a lot of research, and reference sections in the UN.”
and this means time and dedication. The There are countless traps for translators.
first thing is to understand the concept.
They have to take great care with acronyms,
Sometimes a direct translation makes
where three or four letters are used in a
sense; sometimes an English term has to
variety of fields and may mean something
be imported. IMO translators must refer to
different each time. Increasingly, documents
reliable sources, including trade bodies and
are submitted with acronyms, so the IMO The Hong Kong ship-recycling conference
government ministries, and where necessary required a 40-page glossary of terms
consult the delegates themselves and people have to keep well informed about how
technical officers at IMO. The translators have they are applied, and what is the context.
to check for mistakes, such as quoting the Even such words as ‘requirements’ and
wrong reference to a related document. ‘performance’ take on nuances in various
Mr Hernandez-Martin warns that there are languages. There is a difference between
a variety of risks now that so many things are ‘including’ and ‘including, but not limited
done electronically. Sometimes a sentence to...’.
presented for translation makes no sense ‘Last but not least’ can acquire a new
at all because there are a couple of words shade of meaning when translated; ‘several’
missing. He also points out that documents has to be separated from ‘a few,’ and ‘some’
can be written by experts whose priority is to and ‘many’ can be confused.
put their case rather than construct a flowing, Often there are no direct equivalents.
literary sentence. “There are many things English is much more concise and its
implied when experts are talking to other
experts on a particular subject,” he says.
structure is quite different from the other “There is a huge
official languages. It is very difficult to
Isabel del Rio, who heads the Terminology
translate legal texts: ideally, the translator has commitment and shared
and Reference Section created nearly five
years ago for the Translation Services, says
to adhere to punctuation, for referring to an dedication,” says Ariane
earlier ‘second sentence’ might turn out to
that the terminology database, known as
IMOTerm, originally using three languages,
correspond to a different sentence. A change Gireud, head of the French
has been substantially revised and upgraded in one word might mean a change to the Translation Section. “You
into an interactive tool for the six languages whole sentence.
of the Organization, collecting, so far, around Even the term ‘security’, as defined do your work because you
35,000 terms. If we compare the amount in the International Ship and Port Facility
Security Code, posed a problem when it
are committed.”
of data in IMOTerm to the United Nations
terminology database, UNTerm, with 80,000 came to translating it into other languages.
terms and catering for the various UN offices, For instance, the Spanish word ‘seguridad’
IMO’s term base is substantial. Whereas means both safety and security, so a word
UNTerm is accessible to the public, the for word translation would not have done
access to IMOTerm is restricted to a limited the job. After some thought, it was decided
number of users, although the possibility of that “security” should be translated as
widening access beyond delegates and staff “protección” in Spanish.
is under consideration. No-one describes this skill as a creative
Most of the terms and expressions in task, for the translators must be scrupulously
IMOTerm are defined in the three official true to the original, but they must have a
languages, with Arabic, Chinese and Russian
creative brain, and the ability to push beyond
entries increasing rapidly. Entries are based
the latest technical dictionaries. In private
on the ongoing work, but if Ms del Rio and
conversation with any one of this talented
her colleagues encounter elsewhere terms or
group, this gift shines through. In contrast
titles from other organizations or sources that
to the competence and craft these people
could be useful, they are entered too.
The recent ship-recycling conference deploy daily, language-machine translation
convened by IMO in Hong Kong needed offerings will always require significant revision
a 40-page glossary of terms included in by a professional translator.
IMOTerm, which is becoming more than just As one of the team sums up the task of
a terminology database: it is a knowledge ensuring that texts are intelligible to the IMO’s
base, giving background support, references constituency: “There is much research to be
and information for the translator and other done, but the satisfaction is that, in the end,
users. we are facilitating human communication.”
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Exceptional Bravery at Sea
The 2009 IMO Awards for Exceptional Bravery at Sea have been presented to a
professional rescue swimmer who, in Arctic conditions, single-handedly rescued eight
crew members of a foundered vessel in the Bering Sea, and to two amateur sailors who
rescued three people from a sunken yacht in very heavy weather off a remote South
Pacific coral reef
The Award, a silver medal depicting on lights that stretched across the cresting
one side a search-and-rescue operation waves.
with a sinking ship in the background and Knowing that the crewmembers of the
a helicopter rescuing survivors from the Alaska Ranger had an ever-decreasing
sea in the foreground, and with the IMO chance of survival, Petty Officer Heller
logo on the reverse side, was presented rapidly deployed into the 15-foot waves
to the winners by IMO Secretary-General and recovered three survivors. Continuing
Mitropoulos, at a special ceremony at IMO his search for victims, he carefully picked
Headquarters on 23 November 2009, his way through debris and located
during the 26th session of the two additional crewmembers who were
Organization’s Assembly. completely entangled in the sunken vessel’s
fishing gear. Working tenaciously beneath “Working tenaciously
Coast Guard hero the dark and icy waters, he disentangled the beneath the dark and icy
AST2 Abram A. Heller is a professional victims from the netting and placed them into
rescue swimmer with the United States the helicopter’s rescue basket. waters, he disentangled
Coast Guard. In the early hours of 23 March
2008, in arctic weather conditions, he single-
Recognizing that his recovery of the fifth
survivor left no room in the helicopter for
the victims from the
handedly rescued eight crew members of himself, he courageously remained behind netting and placed them
the foundered F/V Alaska Ranger. He then in the wind-swept seas. With the helicopter
gave up his place in the rescue helicopter perilously low on fuel, the cabin completely into the helicopter’s
to enable five rescuees to be taken to filled with survivors and more victims in sight,
he requested the helicopter’s crew rescue
rescue basket.”
safety and waited, on a liferaft, for more
than an hour for the return of the helicopter, raft for use in the water.
along with three further survivors whom As the helicopter departed into the
he had pulled into it. In so doing, he was darkness and blowing snow, Petty Officer
deemed to have acted over and above the Heller, alone and undaunted, used all of his
standard expected of a professional rescuer, physical strength, instinct, and experience to
particularly on his first deployment. assist three severely hypothermic fishermen
If these bald facts are impressive enough, into the life-raft. Over the next hour, he
the full account of the rescue that appears worked doggedly to keep the victims
on the “Coast Guard Heroes” section of the conscious.
United States Coast Guard website reveals As another rescue helicopter arrived,
the full extent of AST2 Heller’s bravery: despite being severely hypothermic himself,
“On the morning of March 23, 2008, the he returned to the frigid waters and placed
fishing vessel Alaska Ranger, a 192-foot the victims, one at a time, into the basket for
catch-processor with 47 persons on board, recovery.”
sank in the Bering Sea, 125 miles west of
Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Arriving on scene in Family fortunes
a Coast Guard helicopter amidst blowing The story of the other award recipients, the
snow and 30-knot winds, Petty Officer Heller Conti family, is no less dramatic. The Contis
witnessed an epic scene of blinking strobe were sailing their yacht, Ocealys, in the
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South Pacific, with their two small children,
when they picked up a distress call from the
yacht Timella, which had struck a reef, two
and a half hours’ sailing time away.
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IMO Secretary-General Mitropoulos shipping is coming to grips with its Training establishments are essential to shipping’s future,
formally opened an extension to the long-predicted labour supply shortage. said Mitropoulos
Arab Academy for Science, Technology There is no doubt that shipping needs
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new 77-acre site in Port Said, Egypt, on for today’s young people, and modern,
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Contrary to global trends, in such as this will be essential elements if
recent years the AASTMT has seen that process is to succeed,”
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seeking to join its maritime navigation The Academy has a strong track
and marine engineering courses. As record of offering assistance to those
a result, the number of students at less fortunate. Every year since 2003,
the College of Maritime Transport and it has made available two scholarships
Technology has increased from 400 for candidates from Africa, leading
students in 2005 to a remarkable 2800 to the award of a Bachelor’s degree
students in 2009. in maritime navigation. In 2009, this
Speaking at the opening ceremony was increased to 10 full scholarships,
of the new branch in Port Said, Mr enabling candidates from Africa to
Mitropoulos drew attention to the vital enrol in the Academy. Moreover, from
role that the Academy and other training 2003 to 2008, the Academy made a
establishments must play as shipping welcomed financial contribution to the
addresses its much-heralded labour implementation of IMO’s Integrated
supply problem. Technical Co-operation Programme
“The opening, today, of this new of US$10,000 annually. In July 2009,
facility will be welcomed not just in the this contribution was extended to
Arab world but in the maritime industry US$100,000 for the 2010-2011
as a whole. For it comes at a time when biennium.
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Leading scientific experts engaged in the ballast water treatment test facility operators workshop to discuss the outcomes of a
fight against alien species transported in to discuss the latest in technology-testing major study, sponsored by the GIA, that
ships’ ballast water came together in January approaches and the need for harmonization. provides a first review of the scientific basis
at the World Maritime University (WMU) in This represented a proactive effort, by for establishing environmental equivalency
Sweden, in a week-long series of ballast IMO, to establish efficient and comparable between traditional treatment systems,
water management-related meetings. The systems’ testing as part of the approval such as those using mechanical, physical
event was jointly organized by the GloBallast process for ballast water management and chemical treatment of ballast water,
Partnerships Programme, IMO’s Global systems, under the International Convention
and emerging alternative concepts. The
Industry Alliance for Marine Biosecurity (GIA) for the Control and Management of Ships’
development of guidelines for establishing
and WMU. Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM
such equivalency is expected to remove the
The first Global R&D Forum on Emerging Convention), which was adopted by the
last barriers against new and innovative ideas
Ballast Water Management Systems brought Organization in 2004.
coming to the market to complement current
together maritime industry, academia and Although the convention has not yet
treatment-based technologies.
technology-development leaders in the entered into force, a number of ballast
field of ships’ ballast water management for water management systems that meet Additionally, on 29-30 January, WMU
a comprehensive overview of this rapidly the standards set out in the convention hosted the European Union-supported
expanding area of research and development have already been approved by national Ballast Water Opportunity project’s first
and technology commercialization. Administrations. Comprehensive guidelines annual conference. WMU is one of the
Earlier, the first Global Expert Forum on the approval process for such systems leading partners in the project and the
on Ballast Water Treatment Test Facility have been adopted by IMO. GloBallast Partnerships Programme is an
Harmonization brought together all the major On 26 January, WMU also hosted a affiliated partner.
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