Malta will be commemorating World Maritime Dayduring the week of 3rd to 6th October, when the first ever Malta Maritime Summit will be held in Malta.
The summit will bring to Malta many key shipping Ministers, policy makers and executives with the aim to discuss in detail the future of the shipping industry and the role it will continue to play in the world.
The theme for World Maritime Day 2016 is Shipping: indispensable to the world. The theme was chosen to focus on the critical link between shipping and global society and to raise awareness of the relevance of the role of IMO as the global regulatory body for international shipping. The importance of shipping to support and sustain today’s global society gives IMO’s work a significance that reaches far beyond the industry itself.
The text of a message from the Secretary-General of IMO, Mr Kitack Lim may be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR61ZIZyHA .
In a message sent to the IMO Secretary on this occasion, Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Joe Mizzi remarked that Malta acknowledges the important role IMO has in ensuring global acceptance and implementation of the twin objectives of safety of shipping and the protection of the marine environment. Maritime Malta pays tribute to this Organisation for its success in building maritime partnerships that are the basis of ensuring safe, an environmentally friendly and cost effective industry.
Malta has been a member of the IMO since 1966 having acceded in June of that year to the UN convention establishing this organization.
As an international maritime centre and in particular as one of the largest shipping registers in the World, Malta is an active participant of the IMO. Malta is also proud of its direct association with two very important international centres run by IMO and located in Malta, the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) and the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI). Both institutions have a distinct objective to ensure that maritime administrations have a well developed and suitably trained human resource.
Minister Mizzi reiterated Malta’s uninterrupted support for the work of IMO and the importance Government continues to attach to the further development and upgrading of the marine sector in a sustainable manner that would really meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR61ZIZyHA .
