While Kitack Lim's plate is full with a number
of watershed issues surrounding ship technology, the Secretary General is clearly passionate about seafarer issues, particularly ensuring that seafarer social and human rights are a top priority.
Kitack Lim stressed the importance of the International Maritime
Organization's ambitious ecological agenda: As soon as 2020, the global'Sulphur Cap' will come into effect, limiting the sulphur content in ship fuels to 0.5 per cent, said Lim:“The entry into force of the sulphur limit on 1 January 2020 is a landmark decision for both the environment and for human health.