The Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation (IMCO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations established by a convention signed at Geneva in 1948 to provide a machinery for co-operation among governments in the field of governmental regulations and practices relating to shipping and to encourage the general adoption of the highest practicable standards concerning maritime safety and efficiency of navigation, to encourage the removal of flag discrimination and to provide for exchange of information. IMCO Convention came into force on March 17, 1958.
The first Assembly session was held in January, 1959. The Organisation had thus completed ten years of successful work. India, as a nation, having special interest in maritime transport and navigation, is a founder member of IMCO and has been elected member of the IMCO Council, the governing body of the IMCO. In view of its growing maritime fleet, shipbuilding and maritime trade, the work of the IMCO is of great importance to this country.
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