World Maritime Day is celebrated during the last week of September. The date of celebration is left to individual Governments to decide.
World Maritime Day 2009:
- International Maritime Organization (IMO) has celebrated on September 24 at the Organization’s Headquarters in London.
- Theme: “Climate change: a challenge for IMO too!”
- Celebration of the IMO World Maritime Day Parallel Event in the United States of America is planned from October 15 to 18.
- Though CO2 emissions by shipping industry is less, IMO wants to take it as a challenge to fight climate change. Global CO2 emissions by:
- Rail: 0.5%
- Domestic Shipping & Fishing: 0.6%
- International Aviation: 1.9%
- International Shipping: 2.7%
- Manufacturing Industries and construction: 18.2%
- Other Transport (Road): 21.3%
- Electricity and Heat Production: 35%
- Other Energy Industries: 4.6%
- Others: 15.3%
- Rail: 0.5%
IMO has initiated an action plan to decelerate climate change by setting up
- Energy Efficiency Design Index for new ships.
- Ship Energy Management Plan for all ships (which includes guidance on best practices for fuel-efficient ship operations).
- Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (which helps to determine the fuel efficiency of a ship).
Read the Message from Secretary-General of IMO as pdf.
Hear the Audio presentation by the Secretary-General as mp3.
Read IMO brochure for World Maritime Day 2009 as pdf.
For more details, log on to IMO.
Post in MarineBuzz on this day a year before:
World Maritime Day 2008: Message by IMO Secretary General
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