Celebrating the 50th year of IMO Treaty with blockchain tech and art shows

The World Maritime Day 2024 will happen on September 26, 2024, with the Worldwide Maritime Group World Maritime Day Parallel Occasion to be held in Spain from October 20-22, 2024. And artwork reveals held within the US as a part of Climate Week NYC. This yr’s World Maritime Day marks 50 years since adopting the 1974 SOLAS Conference, the important thing IMO treaty regulating maritime security, with a theme “Navigating the long run: security first!”

The theme is carefully linked to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement and several other of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, notably SDG 7 on guaranteeing entry to reasonably priced, dependable, sustainable, and clear vitality analysis and expertise; SDG 8 on selling sustainable financial development; SDG 9 on constructing resilient infrastructure and sustainable industrialization that fosters innovation; SDG 13 combating local weather change and its impacts; and SDG 14 on conserving and sustainably utilizing the oceans, seas and marine assets. As IMO Secretary-Common Kitack Lim noted:

“This theme would permit us to give attention to the total vary of security regulatory implications arising from new and tailored applied sciences and the introduction of different fuels, together with measures to scale back GHG emissions from ships as IMO strives to make sure the security and effectivity of delivery are maintained, and doubtlessly improved in order that the stream of seaborne worldwide commerce continues to be clean and environment friendly.”

Usyncro is a Spanish-headquartered, sustainable on-line platform that simplifies worldwide commerce and transportation documentation by guaranteeing transparency, safety, and carbon traceability by blockchain expertise and synthetic intelligence. The “Digital Logistics Hall” received the “The Provide Chain Innovation” award from the United Nations Improvement Program this yr. The platform makes use of AI and blockchain as a service by incorporating superior functionalities targeted on carbon footprint traceability, as detailed in Usyncro Investor Deck.

It cuts down on cargo associated value by bringing effectivity. It ensures the integrity and traceability of paperwork, decreasing the dangers of fraud and errors. Facilitates compliance with worldwide customs and tax rules, a major problem for companies engaged in world commerce by decreasing compliance threat of penalties. Due to this fact, the platform presents a step in direction of sustainability in world logistics. Cristina Martin, CEO and co-founder of  Usyncro, defined that her platform is “a B2B & B2G multimodal, carbon impartial, interoperable, and dynamic SaaS platform that streamlines world logistics by utilizing synthetic intelligence and blockchain as a service. We’re at present targeted on Europe and Latin America, however we need to increase into the USA.”

Usyncro formally started working in Latin America after signing an alliance with ALACAT, the Federation of Nationwide Associations of 16 international locations of Freight Forwarders and Worldwide Logistics Operators of Latin America and the Caribbean. This alliance intends to advertise digital corridors between Europe and Latin America and was strengthened with the  interoperability settlement between Usyncro and CargoX, two leaders in blockchain-based options for the digital administration of economic paperwork throughout the provide chain. As Cristina Martin added:

“We now have valued this affect within the quantity of documentation generated when delivery items and for each ten tons of paper we’re saving 4,000 tons of CO2 emissions into the environment.”

This sustainable partnership between Usyncro and CargoX, leverages blockchain expertise for logistics and doc administration and considerably eases the complexities of worldwide commerce. It streamlines processes, reduces boundaries to entry into new markets, facilitates regulatory compliance, and enhances world commerce administration. The collaboration not solely represents a step ahead in digitalizing worldwide commerce but additionally opens up a wealth of alternatives for companies and entrepreneurs to innovate and develop within the world market. As such, it stands as a beacon for the way forward for worldwide commerce, the place blockchain expertise drives effectivity, transparency, and accessibility.

CWNYC World Maritime Day Artwork Reveals

As a part of my Local weather Week NYC artwork reveals, I prepared two occasions for World Maritime Day, that are United Nations Common Meeting occasions.

I collaborated with the world’s first Local weather Change Museum, CUHK Jockey Membership Museum of Local weather Change, Climarte, Lord Howe Island Museum, Teiduma, SEACHA, and its companion Thai-based Changing Climate Changing Lives Film Festival to arrange these occasions that will likely be held at Putnam Historical past Museum and Havre de Grace Maritime Museum. 

Selva Ozelli’s CWNYC Artwork Reveals

Date: September 26

12-1 PM, PHM, 63 Chestnut Avenue, Chilly Spring, NY

10 AM – 5 PM, HDGMM, 100 Lafayette Avenue, Havre de Grace, MD