World Maritime Day 2012: IMO – One Hundred Years After the Titanic
Today (27 September 2012) marks the 35th celebration of World Maritime Day. This year’s theme is: "IMO: One hundred years after the Titanic", a theme chosen by the International Maritime organization (IMO) to reflect on the safety of passenger shipping today, and into the future, on the centenary anniversary of the Titanic disaster.
In his World Maritime Day message, IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu recalled that the Titanic tragedy, on 14 April 1912, which transformed in a few short hours the world’s most celebrated ship into a name forever associated with disaster, prompted the major shipping nations of the world, at that time, to take decisive action to address maritime safety. This led to the adoption, two years later, of the first-ever International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea and, ultimately, to the establishment of IMO itself.
DATE:2012.9.27
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