Within the Action Plan to promote this year’s World Maritime Day theme ?
Piracy: Orchestrating the Response, a meeting took place at IMO Headquarters on
17th February between IMO Secretary-General Admiral Efthimios E. Mitropoulos
and industry and seafarer representatives. All re-iterated the need for urgent and co-ordinated action from Governments, the shipping industry and the maritime community to address the escalating crisis of kidnap and ransom of seafarers off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden, in the Arabian Sea and in the western Indian Ocean.