For the second consecutive
year during the “Sri Lanka
Maritime Week” in September,
the Colombo International
Maritime Conference better
known as CIMC will be held
from 21st to 23rd September
in Colombo.
The event is conducted in
association with the
Ministry of Ports and
Shipping with Speaker of the
Parliament being the patron
of the event for the first
time. Sri Lanka Maritime
week is a cabinet decaled
week to commemorate the
World Maritime Day every
year which falls in the last
week of September as per
International Maritime
Organization-IMO calendar.
"Shipping: indispensable to
the world” selected as World
Maritime Day theme The IMO
theme 2016 was chosen to
focus on the critical link
between shipping and global
society and to raise
awareness of the relevance
of the role of IMO as the
global regulatory body for
international shipping. The
importance of shipping to
support and sustain today’s
global society gives IMO’s
work a significance that
reaches far beyond the
industry itself.
According to the United
Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD),
around 80 per cent of global
trade by volume and over 70
per cent of global trade by
value are carried by sea and
are handled by ports
worldwide. These shares are
even higher in the case of
most developing countries.
Without shipping the import
and export of goods on the
scale necessary to sustain
the modern world would not
be possible.
Seaborne trade continues to
expand, bringing benefits
for consumers across the
world through competitive
freight cost The Sri Lanka
maritime week will be
inaugurated by the President
to mark the world maritime
day and the Colombo
International Maritime
Conference will be
inaugurated by Prime
Minister who will be the key
note speaker of the
conference. Many senior
ministers too will be taking
stage with over 35
international speakers for
the sessions conducted
during the 3 day event.
CIMC2016 “Sri Lanka- Linking
the maritime cross roads”
The above theme is to offer
and showcase the growing
opportunities in Sri Lanka
maritime industry in South
Asia to international
businesses as it opens up
and invite for more business
to South Asia and to invite
investors to locate in Sri
Lanka as the preferred
maritime destination hub for
better profits and
sustainability.
CIMC will open up topics
ranging from South Asia
maritime forum, Africa, Asia
gateway, emerging Myanmar,
and global shipping industry
updates, transshipment,
Colombo logistics forum,
port development strategy,
energy, cruise tourism,
yacht marinas, offshore
services, bunkering,
technology updates, Sri
Lanka as an investment
destination are some
sessions that will be
available at the
conference.