Last week Monday, following the end of the IMO Council meeting session, a memorandum of understanding was signed by IMO secretary-general Kitack Lim, IAPH president Captain Subramaniam and IAPH managing director Patrick Verhoeven, agreeing on areas of interest for even closer collaboration on climate change, energy transition, digital transformation, trade facilitation and risk and resilience capacity building between shipping and ports. The signing of the MoU very much marks the legacy of secretary-general Kitack Lim who during his tenure relentlessly strived to closely involve ports in the work of the organisation, resulting in the very first IMO Ports Resolution on facilitating maritime decarbonisation, the introduction of the Maritime Single Window, and several other achievements. We are most grateful for secretary-general Lim’s support and look forward to continuing the partnership with his successor, who was elected last week.
