Water transportation also improved.

We have recently amended our Merchants' Shipping Act, with a view to reducing marine pollution from marine transport activities and dumping.

Analysis of the entire maritime transport chain (international commercial shipping as well as port facilities).

The following actions on the part of the Ministry of Transport (Maritime Transport Sector General Authority for Land Border crossing Points) and the Ministry of Aviation (Airport Authority)

These factors can each influence the safety of marine transit.

As to the question whether the words intended carriage cover all parts of the carriage and not only the sea carriage, a majority of the delegations have felt that the text is clear and that there is no need to clarify that the goods must be packed and stowed in order to withstand the sea carriage as well as the ancillary land carriages.

This undertaking must provide for carriage by sea and may provide for carriage by other modes of transport prior to or after the sea carriage.

Encouraged by the relative ease with which goods can be transported by sea and its cost effectiveness, sea transport has become the choice for the continued violations of the arms embargo.

The Somali coastline is the longest in Africa and is littered with small ports and berthing places with virtually no control, and with complete disregard for international maritime regulations.

The contract must provide for carriage by sea and may provide for carriage by other modes of transport prior to or after the sea carriage.

Peru is particularly concerned by the issue of the maritime transportation of radioactive materials.

Collection and analysis of relevant national and international regulations on maritime transport security

Unfortunately, however, maritime security is a serious concern for many seafaring States.

The use of these clauses is a widespread practice in some sectors of maritime carriage.

Multilateral maritime and air transport agreements, as well as communications conventions, were partially inoperative but received partial application.

1. Subject to Articles 3 (1), this Instrument applies to contracts of carriage in which the place of receipt and the place of delivery are in different States, and the port of loading of a sea carriage and the port of discharge of the same sea carriage are in different States, if

The project was completed in early 2004 and provided an analysis of the current international regulations on the security of maritime transport, and their effectiveness in preventing maritime terrorism. The results of this research project were published in May 2004.

Particular attention is given to developments in Latin American trade and maritime transport in the 2005 edition of the Review of Maritime Transport.

Access to the island is by water only there is no airstrip on Pantar.

The Agreement on cooperation in the field of maritime transport in the Arab Mashreq was submitted for adoption at the session.

Several Parties identified certain trends in the transport sector including the increase in road transport at the expense of both commuter and freight railway use and maritime transport.

Information was disseminated to member countries through recurrent publications such as the annual Review of Maritime Transport and the quarterly Transport Newsletter, as well as through non recurrent publications.

For a thousand years, states have regulated maritime transportation for the purpose of promoting safety at sea.

Since the 16th century, shipping, fishing, agriculture, trade, and banking have been leading sectors of the Dutch economy.

The past year also saw a number of activities in the development and implementation of measures to strengthen maritime transport safety and security.

The Executive Agency Maritime Administration has designated liaison officers and has notified the shipping companies and IMO accordingly.

(f) Multilateral maritime and air transport agreements were rendered essentially inoperative but remained legally in force

A question was raised as to whether draft article 89(a) would introduce exemption of liability in the non maritime legs of the carriage in case of multimodal transport.

Instead, ocean transport of clandestine arms shipments, in conjunction with road transport, has been the predominant means by which arms are delivered to purchasers in Somalia.

Employment is primarily in government and industries such as natural resource extraction, shipping, and transportation.

A number of international and regional conventions are in force to govern liability arising from transportation by sea, air and land.

(f) In the area of transport, the United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 (Hamburg Rules), and the United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade and

Finally, France wishes to recall its readiness to engage in a technical dialogue with the States concerned on the question of the safety of the maritime transport of radioactive materials.

Moreover, on 27 February 2005, Algeria organized in collaboration with its American partner Northeast Maritime Institute (NMI) a maritime and port safety drill involving 11 commercial ports and 17 ships of the maritime oil transportation company.

The pollution of the marine environment through our land based activities such as the dumping of waste, as well as unregulated shipping activities, has become a concern for all.

(a) the Organization had and could play a role in the protection of shipping lanes of strategic importance and significance

Particular attention was also paid to the IMO commercial shipping standards, the European Union security standards, the United States rules on maritime security as well as other relevant national and international provisions

We are also fully aware of concerns about the seriousness of threats to maritime security brought to light by reports relating to terrorist networks and individual terrorists linked to Al Qaida.

Developing coastal States need support in enhancing their control measures in order to effectively combat the use of maritime transport by illicit traffickers of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

Another view was expressed that, in light of the adoption of a maritime plus approach in the draft instrument, the inclusion of such a phrase would be superfluous.

A number are family owned enterprises, including Pacific International Lines (shipping), Hong Leong Asia (industrial) and City Developments Ltd. (property development and hotels).

An economic bonus of such an effort for the entire region would come from the opening of direct flights and sea transport across the Taiwan Strait.

We commend those Asian Governments that have taken an active interest in developing cooperation to curb this problem, and we stand ready to cooperate further in an attempt to make shipping more secure.

As a result, the international community should respect the primary responsibility and sovereign right of littoral States in their efforts to ensure the safety of navigation and maritime security in the area.

The Council of IMO in June and in November 2004 discussed the question of the Protection of Shipping Lanes of Strategic Importance and concluded, inter alia, that