International Year of the Seafarer 2010
Download these posters designed by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Celebrating the International Year of the Seafarer, Hong Kong Maritime Museum has created a series of images reminding us of the importance of seafarers to our lives. These images include slogans, in English and Chinese, linking seafarers with commodities such as vehicles, building materials, fuel and coffee. They are displayed randomly throughout the museum and visitors are encouraged to look out for them.
By kind permission of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, you can now use these images in your seafarers’ centre, or stick them up at your church or elsewhere to make the public aware of how the work of seafarers touches all of us.
ICMA applauds this creative response to the International Year of the Seafarer. We thank the Hong Kong Maritime Museum for their generous permission to use the images on our website and among ICMA’s members. (See the bottom of the page for more examples of the posters.) We would be delighted to hear of similar initiatives in other parts of the world.
The Hong Kong Maritime Museum has generously agreed to allow ICMA members to make copies of these images for use in seafarers’ centres and offices. ICMA has print quality copies as PDF files. Please contact the ICMA administrator, Michelle Homden, who will gladly forward the images to you.
Click here for the website of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Other International Year of the Seafarer images
As part of our celebration of the lives of seafarers, ICMA has worked with the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and other partners in seafarers’ welfare to produce a calendar. We are proud that the striking photographs of seafarers that feature in the calendar were taken by port chaplain Dirk Obermann of ICMA member Deutsche Seemannsmission.
Click here to download your free copy of the 2010 calendar
Click here to read more about our plans for the year ahead
Click here to learn more about the IMO Year of the Seafarer logo
More images from the Hong Kong Maritime Museum that are available from the ICMA office
No seafarers, no cars, trucks, buses, trains
No seafarers, no coffee
No seafarers, no cruises