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Maritime Prize, 2009
The International Maritime Prize for
2009 has been presented to Mr. Johan
Franson of Sweden, for his contribution
to maritime safety, security and
prevention of pollution from ships.
The International Maritime Prize
is awarded annually by IMO to the
individual or organization judged
to have made the most significant
contribution to the work and objectives
of the Organization.
Mr. Franson joined the Swedish
Maritime Administration as a lawyer in
1977, rising to General Legal Counsel
and then Director of Maritime Safety
and Head of the Swedish Maritime
Safety Inspectorate, posts which he
held from 1995 until 2008. He served
as Deputy Director General of the
Administration from 1990 to 1995 and
as Director throughout 2009.
A Swedish delegate to IMO since
the early 1980s, Mr. Franson was
Chairman of the IMO Council from
2005 to 2009 and served as an elected
officer on many other occasions,
his posts including: President of the
Diplomatic Conference on maritime
security, which led to the adoption
of SOLAS chapter XI-2 and the
International Ship and Port Facility
Security (ISPS) Code; Chairman of
Committee 1 of the IMO Assembly
(on two occasions); Chairman of
the IMO Council’s working group
on the Organization’s strategic plan;
Chairman of the working group, which
successfully developed the Code for
the Implementation of Mandatory IMO
instruments; and Vice-Chairman of the
IMO Council during the early 2000s.
Mr. Franson played a key role as
policy and technical advisor to the
Swedish Government on maritime
issues, and his expertise and
competence were skilfully displayed
following the tragic loss of the Estonia
in 1994. He led the Swedish delegation
to the 1995 SOLAS Conference, which
adopted a number of measures in the
wake of the Estonia tragedy, including
those related to damage stability.
IMO publishes Life-Saving Appliances,
2010 Edition The 2010 edition of Life-Saving Appliances is
now available from the International Maritime
Organization (IMO).
This publication includes the latest
consolidated versions of the mandatory
International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code,
the Revised Recommendation on Testing of
Life-Saving Appliances and the Code of Practice
for the Evaluation, Testing and Acceptance of
Prototype Novel Life-Saving Appliances.
The updated requirements and
recommendations in the new edition include
those relating to:
• stowage, fitting and equipment of liferafts
• certification and fitting of lifeboats
• new requirements for fast rescue boats
• requirements for lifeboat and rescue boat
launching appliances
• carrying capacity of free-fall lifeboats
• changes in the average weight of persons
to be used for the design and equipment of
life-saving appliances
• extensive new requirements for lifejackets,
including the introduction of infant and child
lifejackets
• extensive associated changes to testing
requirements for life-saving appliances,
including the introduction of reference test
devices.
The publication is available from authorized
distributors of IMO publications
(www.imo.org/publications/pages/home.
aspx) and via IMO’s online bookshop. For
further information, please consult the IMO
website at www.imo.org.