Our Mandate
The Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) was established by statute in December 1999 and commenced operations in July 2000. It is incorporated within Marine Institute and based in Dublin. The office is Ireland’s dedicated development, marketing, and promotional agency for the shipping, ports and shipping service sectors.
The IMDO has a legislative mandate that includes amongst its statutory mandate the following functions:
- To advise the Minister for Transport on the development and the co-ordination of policy in the shipping and shipping services sectors, so as to protect and create employment.
- To advise the Minister on development and co-ordination of policy and to carry out policy as may be specified by that Minister relating to the Ports and Ports services sector.
- To promote and assist the development of Irish shipping and the Irish shipping services and seafarer training.
- To support and market the shipping and shipping services sectors.
- To carry out policy as may be specified by the Minister relating to the shipping and shipping services sectors.
In this context “shipping services” is deemed to include:
- Ship Management
- Technical Management
- Commercial Management
- Crew Management
- Port Activities & Logistics
- Ship Finance and Mortgages
- Marine Insurance
- Maritime Legal Services
- Ports
- Ports services
- Ship Broking
- Ship Chartering
- Short Sea Shipping.
