Brussels Diplomatic Conference

The conference that adopted the Convention establishing the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) was the United Nations Maritime Conference, held in Geneva from 19 February to 6 March 1948, not Brussels. It adopted the Convention on 6 March 1948. IMCO was the predecessor name of the IMO, renamed on 22 May 1982. The 1948 Convention entered into force on 17 March 1958 once 21 states, seven of them with at least 1 million gross tons of shipping, had become parties. Brussels is associated instead with several private maritime law conventions of the Comite Maritime International.