International Maritime Prize

The International Maritime Prize is one of the International Maritime Organization (IMO ) prize, awarded, will be awarded to the individuals or non-governmental organizations who have " contributed significantly to the work and achieve the goals of the International Maritime Organization. " This award is awarded on a yearly basis by the Council of the Organization. Whilst it is intended that the award may be suspended, unless a suitable prize winner is found, this, however, it has never come since the first competition brief of the price in 1980. The nomination of potential winners can be done with observer status at the International Maritime Organization exclusively by governments of the Member States, organizations and programs of the UN, Intergovernmental organizations, which have a cooperation agreement with the International Maritime Organization, closed or non-governmental organizations. The price may also be awarded posthumously.

The winner will receive, in a festive ceremony at the organization's headquarters in London, a sculpture of a dolphin. In addition, the prize is worth $ 1,000. Each winner will also receive the opportunity to write a scientific contribution in connection with the work of the International Maritime Organization, to be published in the Journal of the organization. Of the 33 previously awarded the International Maritime Prize winners ask people from the United Kingdom with a total of four awards, the largest share. As the first and so far the only organization 1998, the International Lifeboat Federation was awarded the prize. 2010 Linda Johnson was the first woman to price.

Award winners

* The prize was awarded posthumously.