Open the strait, with Arsenio Dominguez - Secretary-General of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Well, you've had a distinguished career, and I'm gonna get into that, but first, just briefly, because I think we-- a lot of people have been hearing suddenly about the International Maritime Organization in the news, but just what does it do? It's about shipping.

Tell us.

It is about commercial shipping.

Uh, naval ships are not covered by any of our regulations, military vessels.

So it's all about commercial shipping on international voyage.

And our message is very clear.

We're here to set up the regulatory standards and assist the member states in implementing it in order to have safe, secure, sustainable, and environmentally friendly shipping for everybody else's benefit.

That's our objective, that's our goal, and that's what we've been working for nearly 80 years now.

Why is shipping so important?

I think we just have to look at what is happening right now.

We carried around 90% of global goods around the world from everybody benefits.

If we look around this office, almost everything here would've been connected to shipping and to the sea.

The raw materials, the furniture, the equipment, the wires, would've been transported somewhere from place A to place B by ships.

And at the same time, we don't get, unfortunately, the visibility and, uh, the importance that we, we deserve, in particularly when it comes to the seafarers.

The reality is that we only remember shipping with this, uh, maritime accident of the geopolitics because people get affected, the goods are not arriving, the prices of oil and food are going up.

That just demonstrate how relevant, how important shipping is on every day's life.

But you said 90% of goods are transported via the sea.

That's correct.

And it's, it is true that the only time we ever hear about it, it just happens quiet is, is, is when there's a disruption.

And the most recent disruption, the most dramatic, was in the Strait of Hormuz.