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Requirements for vehicle carriers carrying motor vehicles with compressed hydrogen or natural gas in their tanks for their own propulsion as cargo will be introduced to SOLAS by IMO resolution MSC.365(93).

IMCA has issued new Safety Flash summarizing key safety matters and highlighting lessons learned from maritime incidents

Safety of navigation and fire safety at the major categories of deficiencies in the region Paris MOU has issued its Annual Report on Port State Control for 2014. According to the report, for the first time since the introduction of the New Inspection Regime the number of individual ships inspected has increased (9%). The number of inspections has only increased slightly (4%). With a further decrease in the number of detentions (8%), this also resulted in a lower detention percentage.With a total number of 18,430 inspections performed in 2014 the inspection figures showed an increase of 4% compared with the figures of 2013. Each individual ship was inspected an average of 1.2 times per year, a rate which has been slightly lower to that of 2012. After a drop in the number of inspections that started with the introduction of the New Inspection Regime in January 2011, and continued in 2012 and 2013, the 2014 figures show an increase of 4%.New features of this inspection regime are that the annual inspection target for each Member State is based on ship movement data rather than individual ship calls. Also dedicated quality shipping is awarded with longer intervals between inspections. This year's ...

WTS and WSS have launched the Unitor XFlow mobile water monitor and the Unitor XFlow water mist lance

When it comes to mari time safety, universal and more standardised guide lines are critical as they help reduce the risk of human error

Salvage and Marine Firefighting Core Geographic Specific Appendices

2014 SAFETY4SEA Forum - Lindsay Malen

CHIRP has received several reports of hazardous occur - rences that related to the lack maintenance of Fire Fighting Equipment

On 18 June our Maritime Incident Response Groups from Kent (UK), Zeeland (NL), Ghent, Antwerp, Beveren (BE) Pas de Calais and the French Navy (FR) ran a successful exercise on board DFDS Seaways' cruise ferry, Princess Seaways

Marine Response Alliance (MRA), an association of the top U.S. emergency responders providing OPA 90 Salvage Marine Firefighting (SMFF), has launched an exclusive mobile ap