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In 1987 the IMO adopted resolution A.600(15) to create the IMO number scheme aimed at the "enhancement of maritime safety and pollution prevention and the prevention of maritime fraud" by assigning to each ship a unique permanent identification number.[3] The IMO number remains linked to the hull of a ship for its lifetime, regardless of changes of names, flags, or owners. Lloyd's Register had already introduced permanent numbers for all the ships in their published register in 1963, and these were modified to 7-digit numbers in 1969.[4] It is this number series that was adopted as the bas...