ATTY. BRENDA V. PIMENTEL
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) in 2002 following the attack on the Twin Towers in the US. The Code aims to detect threats to security and introduce measures to prevent security incidents on ships and port facilities. The Code covers ships engaged in international voyages but as it is in many other IMO conventions, parties to the code are not precluded, and are even encouraged as they see fit, to make domestic application of the standards and provisions of these conventions.