Network expands

The Latin America Maritime Technology Cooperation Centre, part of a global network established under an ambitious International Maritime Organization-EU project to further efforts to combat climate change, has been launched in Panama. The centres, in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific regions, act as regional focal points for a wide range of activities. These include, improving compliance with existing and future international energy-efficiency regulations, promoting uptake of low-carbon technologies and operations in maritime transport, and establishing voluntary pilot data-collection and reporting systems to feed back into the global regulatory process. In doing so, they will play their part in supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.