08/04/2014 ​IMO’s Juvenal Shiundu, Deputy director, Technical Cooperation Division,  is representing IMO at the Third Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Transport, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (April 7-11). Mr. Shiundu urged countries to complete IMO's Country Maritime Profiles.  

07/04/2014 ​IMO’s Gaetano Librando attends International Labour Organization meeting (April 7-11)to consider introducing compulsory insurance for abandonment, personal injury and death of seafarers into the Maritime Labour Convention. Draft amendments based on outcome of joint IMO/ILO working group on the subject. 

07/04/2014 IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu gives keynote speech (via  pre-recorded video) on the major issues on IMO’s agenda at 22nd International Maritime Pilots' Association Congress, Panama City, Republic of Panama (April 7).