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Legislation which could lead to the prohibition of waste dumping in the Caribbean Sea was the focus of a workshop hosted this week by the Maritime Authority of Jamaica. Maritime personnel from across the wider Caribbean region attended the workshop, held on October 27th and 28th in Kingston, which considered the ratification, implementation and enforcement of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) Annex I (oil) and Annex (V) garbage.
The workshop came on the heels of a resolution at the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) 60th Session held March 22 and 26 this year in London, prohibiting the discharge from ships of all garbage generated onboard in the Wider Caribbean Region as of May 1, 2011.
Mr. Bertrand Smith, Director of Legal Affairs at the MAJ said: “Since 1991 the IMO had designated the Caribbean region as a “Special Area” for ship‐generated garbage after assessing variables such as shipping traffic, interconnectedness of ecosystems and other vulnerabilities. Due to a lack of adequate waste reception facilities for ship‐generated wastes, the status could not be brought into effect. However, at the MEPC this year several Caribbean states that are party to the MARPOL Convention 73/78 indicated that sufficient waste reception facilities were available at their ports. Therefore countries in the region are encouraged to notify the IMO of the availability of the facilities by populating the IMO’s
Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS) database.”
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