IMO: IMO and industry agree joint approaches on Somalia piracy
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09 Oct 2008 - 18 Jan 2016
At the invitation of IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, a meeting took place yesterday involving the heads of the four shipping industry bodies known collectively as the Round Table (BIMCO, ICS/ISF, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO), and of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF). The meeting aimed at exploring common approaches, additional to measures already taken, to address the increasingly serious incidence of piracy attacks on shipping off the coast of Somalia and, in particular, in the Gulf of Aden - a strategic corridor leading to the Red Sea and to the Suez Canal, which represents a key conduit for almost 12% of the world's crude oil, not to mention other energy, container and general bulk traffic.
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