IMO approves shift of shipping lanes on US west coast to save whales

7/27/2012 10:24:55 AM

THE UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has approved amendments to a proposed traffic re-routing and improve ways of tracking whale locations to avoid the unnecessary deaths of whales along the west coast. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to re-route on Santa Barbara Channel, Los Angeles/Long Beach and San Francisco to prevent the fatal ship collisions with migrating whales. The IMO's Maritime Safety Committee and NOAA aim to re-convene at the end-November with to seek federal adoption of these ship traffic amendments.   Asian Shipper News

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