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The first KIMO UK Conference was recently held in Aberdeen on 5th June 2009. The conference was entitled 'The Grounding of the MSC Napoli: Lessons to be learnt'. The 1-day event examined the grounding of the MSC Napoli and identified lessons that local authorities can implement when planning a response to a similar incident in their own back yard. Read the presentations given at the conference.   read more...

Read about how the marine litter issue is becoming headline news in Scandinavia.   read more...

The star of the BBC's Trawlermen television series, Jimmy Buchan, captain of the fishing vessel Amity II, has recently highlighted Fishing for Litter's significant impact in reducing the volume of marine litter found on Europe's seabeds.   read more...

KIMO's annual general meeting is to be held in the Hague in the Netherlands on 8th, 9th and 10th October 2009.   read more...

Two British based ships, the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Heron, have recently been loaded with deadly cargos of MOX nuclear fuel in France for transportation to Japan. KIMO is against all shipments of highly radioactive material by sea as this poses an unnecessary threat to the coastal environment.   read more...

The KIMO Kontact e-Newsletter is now available to read online! The newsletter contains detailed information on our initiatives, projects and recent successes.   read more...

Fishing for Litter South West has now been launched. Visit our dedicated web pages for more detailed information on this initiative.   read more...

Devon County Council has recently published its report on the beaching of the MSC Napoli in January 2007. The report supports KIMO's campaign to develop a convention for liability and compensation arising from non-toxic pollution. Read the report online! >>   read more...

A revamped version of the KIMO website is now under construction. The fresh design will be more coherent, easier to explore and will contain highly detailed information outlining KIMO's objectives, members, successes and projects. The refreshed site will be launched in May 2009.  

KIMO Baltic Sea recently pressurised the Klaipeda State Sea Port Authority and the Lithuanian government to halt the dumping of silt contaminated with heavy metals into the Baltic Sea.   read more...

Fishing for Litter Scotland 2008 - 2011 was launched on 10th December 2008 at the Scottish Parliament. Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Mr Richard Lochead MSP, attended the event. The launch coincides with the publication of the Fishing for Litter Final Report for the 2005 - 2008 phase of the project.   read more...

KIMO's annual general meeting was held in Tønder, Denmark on 3rd, 4th & 5th October 2008. For more information and photographs from the event visit our dedicated AGM page in the International section of the website.   read more...

At the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council Environment Sectoral Group Ministers agreed to support Fishing for Litter Schemes within their jurisdictions . The proposal came from the Isle of Man who presented a paper highlighting Fishing for Litter, which is coordinated by KIMO UK, as an innovative response to the environmental and economic impact of marine litter on coastal communities.   read more...

Yesterday common sense finally prevailed when Forth Ports Plc abandoned plans to tranship 7.8 million tonnes of Russian crude oil per year in the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh. The operations would have threatened several environmentally sensitive sites and placed responsibility for clean up operations, in the event of an oil spill, onto the Local Authorities around the Forth not the Port themselves.   read more...

KIMO International is increasing its remit to include all the countries around the Baltic Sea in the biggest expansion in its 17 year history. Representatives from KIMO and Baltic Municipalities met in Simrishamn, on the Swedish Baltic Coast, last week to discuss how they could cooperate on marine pollution issues in the Baltic Sea. The event, hosted by Simrishamn Kommun who proposed the expansion, saw 17 Municipalities from Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia attend and resulted in a commitment to establish a KIMO International Baltic Forum as part the KIMO Network.   read more...

The Data Trawl Home Working Project, an innovative home working opportunity for Shetland graduates, co-ordinated by KIMO UK and run from April to December last year, has proved to be a success. To see the report   read more...

The Secretariat presented KIMO Internationals Maritime Green paper consultation response in person to John Richardson, Head of the Maritime Policy Task Force, at the EC.   read more...