Race for IMO Secretary-General approaching its climax

摘要

Each candidate for the Secretary-General of the IMO has their priorities that they will focus on should they be elected. Here The Naval Architect gives a short run down of their key policies. The election winner will take up the position on the 1 January next year. It is clear that the current Secretary-General, Koji Sekimizu, is held in high regard, not only by Vitaly Kluyev, but by the other candidates featured here. All the potential Secretary-Generals have listed completing the work started by Sekimizu as one of their aims and in this regard Kluyev is no exception. He also lists maintaining an adequate budget, keeping a sustainable level of secretariat staff and the effective implementation of the IMO Member States Audit Scheme due to be enforced from 1 January 2016 as major aims.