IMO undergoes changing of the guard
Koji Sekimizu steps down after one term, and is succeeded by Kitack Lim, who will be kept busy with the shipping emissions issue and the migrant crisis, among other things
Add BT as a preferred sourceLAST 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 was no guarantee that his wife would not become unwell again, and that although he would be honoured to accept another four-year term, he could not accept not being able to commit 100 per cent to the work of the IMO.
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