Stop attacking merchant ships and seafarers: IMO Secretary-General to Member States
Conflicts must not be used as pretext to attack merchant ships.
To date, IMO has verified 80 attacks on merchant vessels in the and around the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in at least 22 deaths of seafarers.
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 said: “We are reaching a point where these conflicts are being used as a pretext to attack merchant vessels and innocent seafarers. Do not use these conflicts to attack innocent seafarers.”
Since the current conflict in the Middle East began on 28 February, IMO has verified 80 attacks on internation
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