IMO World Maritime Day theme for 2024 is "Navigating the future: safety first!"

he World Maritime Day 2024 will take place on 26 September 2024. This year's World Maritime Day theme is "Navigating the future: safety first!". Several initiatives will be held to commemorate the Day, including: 

The World Maritime Day Parallel Event (WMDPE) will be held in Spain from 20 to 22 October 2024 allmarinenews uniformed.

The event will consist of a number of high-level panel discussions focused on IMO's theme for 2024: "Navigating the future: safety first!", featuring prominent international speakers who will offer insight into several relevant subjects. The full programme will be available in due course. Information on the event, including registration, hotels and the various activities, will be available soon on the official website at: https://www.transportes.gob.es/maritimo. Participants are invited to register in good time via the event's website. Queries about the event may be sent to wmdpe2024barcelona@transportes.gob.es.

The 2024 World Maritime Day theme "Navigating the future: safety first!" 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.

This theme will allow us to focus on the full range of safety regulatory implications arising from new and adapted technologies and the introduction of alternative fuels including measures to reduce GHG emissions from ships as IMO strives to ensure the safety and efficiency of shipping are maintained, and potentially improved, so that the flow of seaborne international trade continues to be smooth and efficient.

Safety has been at the heart of all of IMO's activities since the Organization was established in 1948. The regulatory framework is continuously evolving as gaps become apparent and as a result of IMO's proactive work to anticipate changes needed to accommodate emerging technologies and innovation – a prominent example being the currently ongoing development of a goal-based Code for maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS Code).

2024 marks 50 years since the adoption of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, the key IMO treaty regulating maritime safety.