The International Maritime Prize is an award granted by the International Maritime Organization to individuals or Non-governmental organizations that "have made the most significant contribution to the work and objectives of IMO."Description of the award at imo.org The prize is usually awarded annually by the IMO Council. Even though it is possible for the Council not to grant the award if no suitable candidate has been nominated, this has never happened since the award has been offered for the first time in 1980. Nominations for the prize can only be made either by governments of states that are members of the IMO, by organizations, bodies and programmes that are part of the United Nations, by intergovernmental organizations which signed an agreement of co-operation with the IMO or by non-governmental international organizations enjoying consultative status.IMO Circular letter No. 2180, January 6, 2000 (PDF; 28 kB)] It is also possible that the prize be awarded posthumously.
The prize is endowed with a grant of $1,000 and a sculpture of a dolphin. In addition the awardee is invited to publish a scientific paper on a topic related to the work of the IMO which is published in the organization's quarterly magazine.
In 1998 the International Maritime Rescue Federation was the first and until now the only organization to which the prize was awarded. In 2010 Linda Johnson was the first female laureate.
Awardees
1980: Modolv Hareide 1981: Roderick Y. Edwards 1982: George A. Maslov 1983: Hjálmar R. Bárdarson 1984: Shen Zhaoqi 1985: Per Eriksson 1986: Moustafa Fawzi 1987: James Cowley 1988: Emil Jansen 1989: Jerzy Doerffer 1990: Zenon Sdougos 1991: C.P. Srivastava 1992: Yoshio Sasamura 1993: John William Kime 1994: John S. Perrakis 1995: G. Ivanov 1996: T. Funder 1997: Gamal El-Din Ahmed Mokhtar 1998: International Lifeboat Federation 1999: Ian Mills Williams 2000: Heikki Juhani Valkonen 2001: Giuliano Pattofatto * 2002: Frank Wall 2003: William O'Neil 2004: Luis Martínez 2005: Tom Allan 2006: / Igor Ponomarev * / Alfred Popp 2007: Jørgen Rasmussen 2008: Alberto Alemán Zubieta 2009: Johan Franson 2010: Linda Johnson * 2011: Efthymios Mitropoulos 2012: Thomas A. Mensah 2013: José Eusebio Salgado y Salgado 2014: Yōhei Sasakawa 2015: Frank Lawrence Wiswall Jr. 2016: Koji Sekimizu 2017: Birgit Sølling Olsen 2018: Joseph J. Angelo 2019: Peter Hinchliffe 2020: Paul Sadler 2021: David Attard 2022: Anneliese Jost
* The prize was awarded posthumously.
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