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Today’s World Maritime Day event is accentuating the value of sex equal rights in the maritime market as well as particularly the payment of females within the market.

World Maritime Day is an International Maritime Organization occasion commemorated every year on September 26 to commemorate the important duty that the global maritime market’s carries the international economic climate. Each year the IMO picks a style to increase recognition regarding problems encountering the market. This year’s style of “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community” has the objective of advertising sex equal rights as well as equipping females as well as ladies in maritime.

“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,” the IMO claimed on its web site.

According to the IMO, females stand for only two percent of the globe’s 1.2 million seafarers, with 94 percent of women seafarers operating in the cruise ship market.

“Shipping has historically been a male-dominated industry and that tradition runs long and deep,” the IMO claims. “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,” the IMO includes.

The World Maritime style message from IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim can beviewed here