WMU Maritime Week - Beyond Horizons: Maritime Sustainability
WMU Maritime Week 2024 - Beyond Horizons: Maritime Sustainability - invites researchers, government officials, and international organization experts from around the world with expertise in the maritime field to discuss technical, policy, and international convention aspects of significant maritime topics. The aim is to share knowledge in each subject area, fostering mutual understanding and generating both practical and academic insights that can be shared across the global maritime community.
Topics
The conference will feature experts from around the world speaking on the following topics:
- Safety
- Sustainability
- Digitalization
- Decarbonization
- Maritime Business
- Capacity Development
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World Maritime Day
World Maritime Day 2024
"Navigating the future: safety first!" is the International Maritime Organization's 2024 World Maritime Theme. The theme reflects IMO's work to enhance 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.
About World Maritime Day
World Maritime Day was first held in 1978 to mark the 20th anniversary of the IMO Convention’s entry into force. Celebrations are held throughout the world to focus attention on the importance of shipping safety, maritime security and the marine environment, and to emphasize a particular aspect of IMO's work. World Maritime Day celebrations are usually held during the last week in September.
Since 2005, in addition to the official IMO celebrations held at IMO Headquarters in London, there has been a Parallel Event hosted by a Member State.
To read more about World Maritime Day 2024, click here.
United Nations Day
On 24 October, United Nations Day is celebrated around the world. It is an opportunity to reflect on the organization’s work on behalf of humanity, including on urgent challenges such as alleviating poverty and hunger, defending human rights and addressing the need for bold climate action.
UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the Security Council, the United Nations officially came into being.
October 24 has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948. In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that the day be observed by Member States as a public holiday.
To learn more about United Nations Day, click here.