{"id":350919,"date":"2025-11-29T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=350919"},"modified":"2025-11-29T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:48:20","slug":"international-maritime-organization-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-maritime-organization-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"International Maritime Organization (IMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India has been re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in Category B, comprising 10 countries with the <strong>largest interest in international seaborne trade.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>About International Maritime Organization<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/R.69831302c6013a46577cef9df4cfb0bb?rik=iJxl1%2fOjUuakfA&amp;riu=http%3a%2f%2fseekvectorlogo.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2019%2f09%2finternational-maritime-organization-imo-vector-logo.png&amp;ehk=x8hCLN9nn4hY0PUBMSVGebMdyN0i9ZqzXi%2b31w7xNQg%3d&amp;risl=&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0\" alt=\"International Maritime Organization (IMO) \" width=\"419\" height=\"233\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: IMO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>International Maritime Organization is the <strong>United Nations specialized agency<\/strong> with<strong> responsibility for the safety and security of shipping<\/strong> and the prevention of marine and atmospheric pollution by ships.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> To create a <strong>regulatory framework for the shipping industry<\/strong> that is fair and effective, universally adopted and universally implemented.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Established in:<\/strong> It was <strong>established in 1948<\/strong> and the IMO <strong>Convention entered into force in 1958.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> London, UK<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member states:<\/strong> IMO currently has <strong>176 Member States and three Associate Members.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>India <strong>joined the IMO in 1959.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are<strong> 67 intergovernmental organizations<\/strong> which have observer status and<strong> 88 international non-governmental organizations<\/strong> in consultative status with IMO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structure of the organisation<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>IMO is <strong>led by the Secretary General.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IMO Assembly:<\/strong> It consists of <strong>all Member States and is the highest governing body<\/strong> of the Organization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IMO Council:<\/strong> It is <strong>elected by the Assembly for a term of two years<\/strong>. It acts as the<strong> executive organ of IMO<\/strong> and is responsible for supervising the work of the Organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India has been re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in Category B, comprising 10 countries with the largest interest in international seaborne trade.\u00a0 About International Maritime Organization International Maritime Organization is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-maritime-organization-imo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Maritime Organization (IMO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1236,12039],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-350919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}