BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of Ocean (WCO-2012), successfully held in Dalian World Expo Center on September 20-22, 2012. Totally, there were nearly 200 participants from more than 25 countries have attended the WCO-2012.

As the keynote speakers, Mr. Sturla Henriksen, Director General, Norwegian Shipowners' Association, Norway; Dr. Corrado Antonini, Chairman, Fincantieri, Italy; Dr. Noboru Ueda, Chairman and President, ClassNK, Japan; Mr. Oussama El Omari, Advisor, Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone, United Arab Emirates; Dr. Jiahui Song, Security Director, China's Transportation Department of Transportation, China; Dr. Yuzhuo Si, Former President of Dalian Maritime University and A Member of Committee Maritime International, China; Dr. Liang Jun, Assistant of President, Zhangzidao Group CO., Ltd, China and Dr. Xavier T. Cherch, CEO, Aqua Biologics, Inc., USA made excellent presentations and warmly discussed with the audiences at keynote forum.

There are 20racks in this conference including Maritime Law and Standards, Marine Resource Assessment, Shipping Economics, Finance, and Insurance, Port Transport and Management, Marine Security and Salvage, Understand Waves in Coastal Engineering, Coastal Infrastructure and Engineering, Transportation Vessels, Marine Protected Areas and Green Coastal Tourism. Anti-Corrosion for Maritime Industries, Marine Intelligence-Telecommunication, IT/IOT and Media, Seawater Technology, Ocean Disaster Assessment and Prevention, Free Trade Zone, Renewable Ocean Energy, Update on the Changing Global Regulations, Marine Policy and Laws, Marine Environment Engineering and Pollution Remediation, Maritime Education and a Young Scientist Forum. The conference has promoted the communication of colleagues and collaboration of partners from the upstream to the downstream of Marine Biotechnology.

Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are confident in organizing WCO-2013 which would be better and more successful than WCO-2012.