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Shipping
is perhaps the most international of all the world's great
industries - and one of the most dangerous. It has always
been recognized that the best way of improving safety at sea
is by developing international regulations that are followed
by all shipping nations. IMO's first task when it came into
being in 1974 was to adopt a new version of the
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS),
the most important of all treaties dealing with maritime
safety. |