IMO chief bemoans ferry safety record

摘要

Outgoing IMO secretary-general Koji Sekimizu has made a passionate call for improvements to domestic ferry safety, saying owners and governments have a 'moral obligation' to act. Writing in the IMO's in-house magazine, Sekimizu heaped disapprobation on the domestic ferry industry, which has suffered 20 serious accidents since the beginning of 2014, each with an 'unacceptably high loss of life'.