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Careers at IMOIMO Headquarters, LondonShipping is perhaps the most international of the world's industries, serving more than 90 per cent of global trade by carrying huge quantities of cargo costeffectively, cleanly and safely.
The ownership and management chain surrounding any ship can embrace many countries and ships spend their economic life moving between different jurisdictions, oftenfar from the country of registry. There is, therefore, a need for international standards to regulate shipping - which can be adopted and accepted by all. The first maritime treaties date back to the19th century. Later, the Titanic disaster of 1912 spawned the first international safety of life at sea - SOLAS - convention, still the most important treaty addressing maritime safety. (more)International memorial to seafarers
IMO Memorial to Seafarers
In September 2001 the international memorial to the world’s seafarers, past, present andfuture, was unveiled at IMO Headquarters. The memorial, a seven-metre high, ten-tonne bronze representation of the bow of a cargo ship with a lone seafarer on the deck, is the work of internationally...