Popp awarded International Maritime Prize by IMO

Popp awarded International Maritime Prize by IMO The International Maritime Organization Monday in Panama City presented its International Maritime Prize for 2006 to Canadian national Alfred Popp, former chairman of IMO’s Legal Committee.
   The IMO this year decided for the first time to award the prize to two recipients with the second going posthumously to Igor Ponomarev. Ponomarev was the serving chairman of IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee at the time of his sudden death in October last year at 41 years old.