Update on 12 Apr 2024:
The 48th session of the IMO Facilitation Committee (FAL 48) met from Monday, 08 April to Friday, 12 April 2024.
Among the 20 agenda items, the key topics included:
- Attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden
- Prevention and suppression of the smuggling of drugs
- Development of an overarching IMO digitalization strategy, including the development of joint FAL-LEG-MEPC-MSC guidelines on electronic certificates
- Application of single window concept including cybersecurity and development of a model law on cybersecurity
- Adoption of the resolution on revised Guidelines for the prevention and suppression of the smuggling of wildlife on ships engaged in international maritime traffic