如今，保护世界海洋及其栖息地的迫切需要已广为人知。因此，也需要一个可持续的航运业，以确保全球货物和商品以及乘客的基本运输。

数十万海员每天都见证着人类活动（包括航运活动）造成的海洋环境变化。这些海员是解决方案的关键组成部分，他们执行海事组织为保护海洋和地球而制定和通过的重要规则和条例，同时确保航运安全。

海员在保护海洋环境方面的贡献在一年一度的海员日得到强调。每年6月25日是该日，以表彰这一海运劳动力在国际贸易、世界经济和民间社会中发挥的独特作用。

一年一度的海员日将突出海员在保护海洋环境方面的贡献。每年6月25日这一天，行业都会庆祝，以表彰这些海上劳动力在国际贸易、世界经济和公民社会中所发挥的独特作用。

保护世界海洋

今年是《国际防止船舶污染公约》(MARPOL)通过50周年，该公约是防止船舶因作业或意外原因污染海洋环境的主要全球条约。今年的海员日反映了2023年世界海事主题：“《MARPOL》50周年——我们的承诺继续——我们的承诺继续下去”。

它强调了国际海事组织保护环境免受航运影响的悠久历史，以及它对通过这一重要条约所做的重要工作的持续承诺。

国际海事组织秘书长林基泽在2023年海员日致辞中强调，随着海事部门努力使航运更加环保和可持续，海员在保护海洋状况方面发挥了重要作用。

Mr Lim说：

“海员在帮助保护海洋和地球健康方面一直发挥着关键作用，而且这一作用越来越重要。每天在海上，他们通过执行垃圾、污水和空气污染预防规则，帮助执行国际海事组织的环境相关条约。”

“今年，在我们庆祝我们的主要环境文书《防污公约》50周年之际，我们重申了对保护环境的坚定承诺，这一点仍然更加重要。”

他补充道：

“随着航运业加快支持全球通过脱碳应对气候变化的努力，海员的声音和行动是确保向零碳未来公正过渡的关键。”

▲On Day of the Seafarer 2023, IMO Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, highlights the part seafarers play in conserving the world's oceans

在社交媒体上庆祝海员

为了强调海洋环境值得保护，国际海事组织邀请海员通过在社交媒体上分享他们在海上的照片来纪念2023年海员日。他们的想法是，世界通过他们的眼睛看到他们每天所从事的重要工作是如何保护海洋的。

海事行业的其他人士和广大公众也被鼓励参加社交媒体活动，以表达他们对海员的感激之情。

英文原文

The urgent need to protect the world's oceans and the habitats within them is, nowadays, well understood. So, too, is the need for a sustainable shipping industry to ensure the essential transportation of goods and commodities across the globe, and of passengers.

Hundreds of thousands of seafarers bear witness every day to changes in the marine environment due to human activity – including from shipping. Those same seafarers are a key part of the solution through their implementation of vital IMO rules and regulations developed and adopted to care for the oceans and the planet, whilst ensuring the safety of shipping.

Seafarers' contribution in safeguarding the marine environment is being highlighted on the annual Day of the Seafarer. The Day is marked each year on 25 June to recognize the unique part played in international trade, the world economy and civil society by this seaborne workforce.

Protecting the world's oceans

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), the main global treaty for the prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships from operational or accidental causes. This year's Day of the Seafarer reflects the 2023 World Maritime theme: "MARPOL at 50 – Our commitment goes on".

It emphasizes IMO's long history of protecting the environment from the impact of shipping – and its ongoing commitment to the important work done through this crucial treaty.

In his message for Day of the Seafarer 2023, IMO Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, underlined the part seafarers have in conserving the state of the oceans, as the maritime sector works towards making shipping more environmentally sound and sustainable.

Mr Lim said:

"Seafarers have always played a critical role in helping to protect the health of our ocean and planet, and that role is increasingly important. Every day at sea, they help to enforce IMO's environment related treaties by implementing rules on garbage, and sewage, and air pollution prevention."

"This year, as we celebrate the 50-year anniversary of our main environmental instrument – the MARPOL Convention - renewing our firm commitment towards the protection of our environment, this remains even more relevant."

He added:

"As the shipping industry accelerates its support of the global efforts to combat climate change by moving towards decarbonization, seafarers' voices and actions are key to ensuring a just transition to a zero-carbon future."

(Watch a video of the Secretary-General's message here.)

Celebrating seafarers on social media

To highlight that the marine environment is worth protecting, IMO is inviting seafarers to mark Day of the Seafarer 2023 by sharing on social media photographs of themselves wherever they are at sea. The idea is that the world sees through their eyes how the vital work they undertake protects the oceans every day.

Others within the maritime industry and the wider public are also encouraged to take part in the social media campaign to show their appreciation for seafarers.

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