(Togo First) - On March 17, 2022, Togolese deputies unanimously passed two laws aimed at making the county’s maritime space safer and more protected. The laws, on the one hand, greenlit Togo’s adhesion to the International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, and on the other, the ratification of the 1988 Protocol regarding the 1966 International Convention on load-lines.
In detail, the first convention aims to establish rules for the location, marking, and removal of wrecks that hamper navigation. As for the ratification of the 1966 International Convention, to which the country already adhered in July 1989, it will effectively help integrate into Togo’s legal system technical provisions that match safety requirements for maritime navigation.
The two laws should help Togo better protect both human lives and material property in its maritime space, and protect the latter against certain forms of pollution. They should allow the country to be compensated when wrecks are found, removed, or marked in its waters.
Commenting on the matter, Edem Tengue, the Minister of Maritime Economy, said the laws “will greatly serve the development of the Togolese port industry, since the Autonomous Port of Lomé, given its geographical position in West Africa and its natural assets, is at the center of the application of all legal instruments governing the Togolese maritime domain”.
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