{"id":17469,"date":"2016-09-29T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T00:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/news\/vancouver-sun-opinion-piece-canada-is-a-maritime-trading-nation\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:32:29","slug":"vancouver-sun-opinion-piece-canada-is-a-maritime-trading-nation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/fr\/news\/vancouver-sun-opinion-piece-canada-is-a-maritime-trading-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Sun Opinion Piece: Canada is a maritime trading nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"opener\">Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/Pages\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Maritime Organization (IMO)<\/a> and the marine shipping community are celebrating World Maritime Day.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/About\/Events\/WorldMaritimeDay\/Pages\/WMD-2016.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cShipping: Indispensable to the World\u201d<\/a> \u2014 was chosen by the IMO \u201cto focus on the critical link between shipping and the everyday lives of people all over the planet. For the vast majority, shipping is out of sight and out of mind. But this does a huge disservice to an industry that \u2026 keeps the people of the world fed, clothed, housed and entertained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Wiefelspuett, Executive Director of Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping, discusses how this theme is particularly relevant for Canadians in an op-ed Vancouver Sun, <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/opinion\/opinion-the-indispensability-of-marine-shipping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00ab\u00a0Canada is a Maritime Trading Nation\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the marine shipping community are celebrating World Maritime Day. This year\u2019s theme \u2014 \u201cShipping: Indispensable to the World\u201d \u2014 was chosen by the IMO \u201cto focus on the critical link between shipping and the everyday lives of people all over the planet. For the vast majority, shipping is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":"","client_tools_sitemap_exclude":""},"class_list":["post-17469","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearseas.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}