ISO Focus - January 2005

Securing transport

ISO Focus, January 2005

• Online version

 

“The International Standards developed for maritime security will make a valuable and necessary contribution towards the overall aim of safeguarding international shipping from the threat of global terrorism,” says Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary General of IMO (International maritime Organization), in an exclusive interview in the January issue of ISO Focus on securing commercial transport.

The collection of articles reinforce how tightening security through the use of International Standards helps ensure a streamlined and lower risk interchange of goods at a moment when international trade is expanding rapidly.

Security has in the last years risen fast as a subject of great preoccupation, on land and on sea.

Comment

Alan Bryden , ISO Secretary-General
Records and challenges  

Guest View

Efthimios E. Mitropoulos
Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

"IMO's mission is summed up in its slogan: Safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans"
Read the full interview (PDF, 517 KB)

Main Focus  

Securing transport

• ISO special containers increase world trade
• Taking aboard all players in securing the supply chain
• Tightening freight transport security
• End-to-end electronic supply chain
• How to protect software and data of road vehicles
• Inherent risk in the transport of dangerous goods
• Global solutions for gas cylinders  

Developments and initiatives

• Making history at Mars: Proximity-1, key to Mars communications
• Global harmonization of safety requirements for lifts – A vision, dream or reality?
• International Standards in the technical energy sector
• New versions of ISO 14000 environmental management system standards

New this month

• ISO welcomes Tajikistan and Guinea  

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