This new edition of the Code incorporates all amendments adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee up to 2000. The Code is intended for communications between ships, aircraft and authorities ashore during situations related essentially to the safety of navigation and persons; it is especially useful when language difficulties arise. The Code is suitable for transmission by all means of communica…
Regulation 13 of Annex I of MARPOL 73/78 requires certain ships to operate with a cargo tank cleaning system using crude oil washing. The crude oil washing installation, assocaited equipment and arrangements must meet requirements established by Administrations based on specifications originally adopted by the International Conference on Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention in 1978. These spe…
NAVTEX is an international automated direct-printing service for promulgation of navigational and meteorological warnings and other urgent information to ships. It is one of the two principle methods used for broadcasting maritime safety information in accordance with the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended. It has been developed to provide…
This publication, prepared by the OPRC-HNS Technical Group and approved by IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee, provides guidance on the establishment of an incident management system (IMS) for marine pollution incidents. An established IMS provides for the safe, effective and effi cient management and deployment of resources for all types of emergency incidents. It is essential …
MARPOL - How to do it (Manual on the practical implications of ratifying and implementing MARPOL 73/78) was first published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 1993 to provide advice on the process of ratiffication, implementation and enforcement of the International Convetion for the prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the protocol of 1978 relating thereto …
This publication provides useful practical information to Governments, particularly those of developing countries, Administrations, shipowners, port State control authorities, environmental agencies and other stakeholders on the implications of ratifying, implementing and enforcing the Ballast Water Management Convention. The aim is to encourage the further ratification and proper implementati…