World Maritime Day parallel events
Colombia-2019
About the World Maritime
theme for 2019
The World Maritime Day theme for the year is
"Empowering Women in the Maritime Community". This provides an
opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of gender equality, in line
with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and to highlight
the important - yet under-utilized - contribution of women within the
maritime sector
Empowering women fuels thriving economies across the world,
spurs growth and development, and benefits everyone working in the global
maritime community in the drive towards safe, secure, clean and
sustainable shipping
Parallel Event 2019 -
Colombia
The
World Maritime Day Parallel Event 2019 was held in Cartagena, Colombia,
15-17 September 2019
The
World Maritime Day Parallel Event is hosted in a different country each
year. It provides a platform that brings together important actors and
stakeholders in the maritime community to discuss matters of mutual concern. In
keeping with this year's theme, the 2019 Parallel Event will raise a particular
spotlight on issues affecting maritime women that are relevant to the wider
maritime community
Achieving gender equality
and empowering all women and girls
Shipping has
historically been a male-dominated industry and that tradition runs long and
deep. However, IMO believes that empowering women fuels thriving economies,
spurs productivity and growth, and benefits every stakeholder in the global
maritime community. Through its Women in Maritime gender equality and capacity-building programme IMO encourages its Member States to enable
women to train alongside men in their maritime institutes and so acquire
the high-level of competence that the maritime industry demands
IMO supports gender
equality and the empowerment of women through gender specific fellowships;
by facilitating access to high-level technical training for women in the
maritime sector in developing countries; and creating the environment in which
women are identified and selected for career development opportunities in
maritime administrations, ports and maritime training institutes