What it is - International Maritime Organization

IMO has always attached the utmost
importance to the training of ships’
personnel. In 1978 the Organization
convened a conference which adopted
the first ever International Convention
on Standards of Training, Certification
and Watchkeeping for Seafarers. The
STCW Convention entered into force
in April 1984. It established, for the
first time, internationally acceptable
minimum standards for crews. It was
revised in 1995, giving IMO the power
to audit the administrative, training
and certification procedures of Parties
to the Convention. The amendments
entered into force in 1997. Following
a comprehensive review, substantive
revisions to update the STCW
Convention, and its related STCW
Code, were adopted in 2010, at a
Conference held in the Philippines (the
so-called “Manila amendments”).
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What it is