With the number of joint initiatives and projects being planned and executed between IAPH and IMO on energy transition, trade facilitation and port call optimisation, IAPH communications director Victor Shieh finally visited IMO’s headquarters in London this week to meet up in person for the first time with social media and communications officer Karine Langlois. Both have been working together during the pandemic on various projects.

Subjects discussed included communications around IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) activities as well as Facilitation (FAL) with a particular focus on adoption of Maritime Single Window systems.  Just in Time Arrivals and work around biofouling also featured as well as the participation of IAPH as official partner of the GreenVoyage2050 partnership project between the Government of Norway and IMO.