IMO World Maritime Day theme for 2024 is
Navigating the future: safety first!
Highlighting improving maritime safety and security, in tandem with the protection of the marine environment, whilst ensuring its regulatory development process safely anticipates the fast pace of technological change and innovation.
This theme focuses on the full range of safety regulatory implications arising from new and adapted technologies and the introduction of alternative fuels including measures to reduce GHG emissions from ships and ensuring the safety and efficiency of shipping are maintained, and potentially improved.
2024 marks 50 years since the adoption of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, the key IMO treaty regulating maritime safety.
The theme is also closely linked to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and several of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly on:
- SDG 7 on ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by facilitating access to clean energy research and technology.
- SDG 8 on promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- SDG 9 on building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation
- SDG 13 on taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- SDG 14 on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Knowledge & Insights
As Ballast Water Treatment Systems (in short BWTS) plays an important role in managing ballast water and reducing ecological and health risks. As per the BWM Convention of 2014 vessels are required to comply with certain guidelines and standards. In this whitepaper you will find everything you need to know on BWTS and the requirements for vessels.
