Stop attacking merchant ships and seafarers: IMO Secretary-General to Member States

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The International Maritime Organization Secretary-General urged member states to cease attacks on merchant ships and seafarers, highlighting risks from current geopolitical tensions affecting the shipping industry. The warnings came during an IMO Sub-Committee meeting discussing cargoes and containers.

The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez, has called on Member States to refrain from actions that endanger merchant ships and put seafarers’ lives at risk. Addressing the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers, the Secretary-General warned of the severe impacts of geopolitical tensions on the shipping industry. Secretary-General Dominguez ...