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After almost three years of waiting, it’s finally time for Nor-Shipping again, as key industry decision makers ready themselves to descend upon Oslo and Lillestrøm next week. ‘Your Arena for Ocean Solutions’, taking place 4-7 April, will be the first major international gathering of maritime and ocean industry leaders since the global pandemic began. As ...

Geopolitical developments, and how to adjust to them, will be centre stage at the Nor-Shipping Ocean Leadership Conference on 4 April in Lillestrøm, Norway. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Secretary General of NATO and Prime Minister of Denmark, will be the headline speaker, while the overall event will focus on the central themes of People, ...

The UN’s shipping agency will seek to create a safe maritime corridor to enable merchant ships and their crews stuck in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to sail away without the risk of being hit, it said. Russia’s military took control of waterways when it invaded Ukraine on Feb 24, in what Moscow ...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), in collaboration with the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA International) and Maritime SheEO, is delighted to announce the launch of the Maritime SheEO Leadership Accelerator Programme 2022. The programme was launched on Tuesday March 8, 2022 during a live webinar focussing on “The Next Generation Of Women Leaders ...

The IMO ha sponsored 30 women to participate in the Maritime SheEO Leadership Acceleration Programme as part of its celebration of International Women’s Day.

IMO has responded to calls for council meeting over ships and seafarers trapped in the Ukraine and wider Black Sea.

Stella Maris chaplains, volunteers and staff from around the world joined together in prayer for peace in the Ukraine on 2 March. The prayer service, joined by Fr Alexander Smerechynskyy, Stella Maris Ukraine National Director, and port chaplain in Odessa, was convened in response to the call from Pope Francis that Ash Wednesday, 2 March, ...

Nor-Shipping 2022 has announced that ticket sales for key events across its 4-7 April activity programme are “beyond expectations”, with the Opening Party selling out after only one week and “very limited” availability for the Ocean Leadership Conference and Closing Party. Organisers note that “a hunger to meet up again” is driving interest, bookings and ...

The secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization is urging "all parties to take steps to ensure" safe passage across the seas.

Kitack Lim, Secretary-General at IMO, has stressed the importance of collaboration across various maritime sectors to achieve net zero.