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Focus on IMO
Focus on IMO International Maritime Organization, 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7735 7611 Fax: +44 (0)20 7587 3210 Contacts: Lee Adamson Senior External Relations Officer; Natasha Brown External Relations Officer E-mail: Web site: These documents are for background information. Please refer to the website for up-to-date information. October 1998 SOLAS: the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 Background Of all international conventions dealing with maritime safety, the most important is the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). It is also one of the oldest, the first version having been adopted at a conference held in London in 1914. Since then there have been four other SOLAS conventions: the second was adopted in 1929 and entered into force in 1933; the third was adopted in 1948 and entered into force in 1952; the fourth was adopted (under the auspices of IMO) in 1960 and entered into force in 1965; and the present version was adopted in 1974 and entered into force in 1980.
2 This time 18 countries attended. The conference adopted a new SOLAS convention which followed basically the same format as the …
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