International Day of the Seafarer 2011 honoured in Polish style The maritime world united to celebrate the International Day of the Seafarer, 25 June, in the Polish port of Gdynia. Representatives of the Maritime Board, the Maritime University, port authorities, trade unions, and seafarers and their families joined ICMA member AOS in honouring the contribution [...]
ICMA is part of an IMO initiative to celebrate an annual Day of the Seafarer on June 25th. This year will see the first of these days. The plan is to celebrate the day internationally at as many seafarers centres and in as many ports as possible. ICMA members run almost 500 seafarers’ centres. ICMA [...]
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) plans to celebrate the “Day of the Seafarer” on 25 June 2011. It is set to become an annual event. As a non-governmental organisation member of IMO, ICMA participates in IMO deliberations and activities. ICMA Chairman, Douglas B. Stevenson, has written to the members of ICMA: Naturally, ICMA was elated when [...]
