IMO undergoes changing of the guard

LAST Friday, Kitack Lim, formerly president of South Korea's Busan Port Authority, started his initial four-year term as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

His predecessor, Koji Sekimizu, had stood down at the end of his first term of office at the close of 2015 for personal reasons; he had already announced in late 2014 that he would devote himself to caring for his ailing wife rather than serve a second four-year term, as had been widely expected.

He had written of his decision that there w…