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Servicing of Inflatable Liferaft on board Malta-registered Ships

The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is pleased to announce the release of the second draft of IACS harmonised Common Structural Rules (CSR) on the IACS website.As part of the agreed process of development, IACS invites Industry to offer comments on all parts of the draft Rules - prior to the end of August 2013. Feedback should be submitted via e-mail to [email protected] second draft of the harmonised CSR builds on the first draft that was released in July 2012. The rule text has been further developed to take into account feedback received during the first review period although some of the more detailed comments are still being considered. Presentations of the second draft of harmonised Rules are provisionally planned in Asia and Europe.A key objective of the CSR harmonisation project was to achieve full compliance with the IMO Goal Based Standards (GBS) which come into force in the middle of 2016. With this in mind, this second release of the draft harmonised CSR and technical background address the Functional Requirements of the IMO Goal Based Standards (GBS), where they fall within the scope of these Rules.The harmonisation of the Rules involves extensive technical work, testing and calibration, and ...

IACS Harmonised Common Structural Rules Released for Industry Review

New IACS Blue Book released

IACS Council met this week in London under the chairmanship of Tom Boardley of Lloyds Register IACS Council met this week in London under the chairmanship of Tom Boardley of Lloyds Register. He reported "we had a very productive meeting during which, among many other matters, we agreed to extend the Industry review period of the Harmonised Common Structural Rules at a meeting with industry colleagues from Shipowner Associations, Shipbuilders and Insurers." IACS also agreed to strengthen the implementation of EEDI by using the industry developed guidelines as a Procedural Requirement for IACS Members. IACS chairs the joint industry working group which developed the ground breaking EEDI guidelines that have been submitted to the IMO.By using these guidelines as Procedural Requirements mandatory on Members whose societies classify over 90% of the world fleet, IACS is setting down a benchmark for efficient and environmentally safe shipping unsurpassed by any other non-governmental safety organisation.In furtherance of this initiative IACS Council members also agreed to work with Industry to develop an energy efficiency measure for existing ships. Presently, there is no credible industry standard for existing ships so the development of an IACS standard will have a massive impact on the ability of ...

Classification Societies Establish EU Presence

ICS, IACS, BIMCO, Intercargo, Intertanko, OCIMF, CESS Representatives of the leading worldwide Associations of Shipbuilders, Classification Societies and Shipowners met in Busan, Korea for their annual Tripartite meeting hosted by the Korean Register of Shipping and KOSHIPA, the national shipbuilders association.The meeting was united in expressing its serious concern with the obstacles that all three parties face as the Ballast Water Management Convention moves closer to ratification, eight years after its text was adopted. It was always going to be challenging to fit ballast water treatment equipment to all of the world's 70,000 ships.New technologies needed to be explored and developed to treat the volume of water required by ocean going ships as ballast. However the slow pace of ratification by IMO member States has negated the carefully staged implementation programme that was a feature of the original Convention. Now that the fixed timeline for implementation has passed without entry into force it means that, as soon as the Ballast Water Management Convention does meet its ratification criteria, thousands of ships will need to be fitted in a very short time.Whilst strenuous efforts were made by industry, this will put unattainable demands on ship repair facilities, engineering capabilities and on ...

IACS in the next 12 months

An electronic library of technical resolutions The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) has released the new version of its Blue Book - an electronic library of technical resolutions (both past and present) adopted by IACS as a result of its technical work.Sections include: IACS Unified Requirements which IACS members incorporate into their Rules Unified Interpretations of IMO convention requirements which IACS Members apply uniformly when acting on behalf of authorising flag Administrations, unless instructed otherwise Procedural Requirements governing practices among IACS Members IACS Charter and IACS Procedures which define the purpose, aim and working procedures of the Association Recommendations relating to adopted resolutions that are not necessarily matters of Class but which IACS considers would be helpful to offer some advice to the marine industry UR - Unified Requirements Status advising on implementation status UR HF & TB containing the History and Technical Background files for the Unified Requirements Quality Documents containing QSCS (IACS' Quality System Certification Scheme) description, Quality Management System Requirements, Audit Requirements, ACB (Accredited Certification Bodies) requirements and other quality proceduresTo download your copy, please visit the IACS website's publications page.Source : IACS

Ships will be allowed only if they satisfy conditions such as having adequate insurance The Government has decided to restrict the entry of ships over 25 years old into Indian ports or territorial waters. "Most of the ships involved in accidents, such as the MSC Chitra and M.V. Khalijia are very old.Therefore, the Government has decided to issue a notification under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, that such ships will be allowed only if they satisfy conditions such as having adequate insurance to cover liabilities including collision, wreck removal and salvage," said the Union Minister for Shipping, Mr G.K. Vasan, in Parliament. Such ships should be classed with Classification Societies which are full members of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), and should appoint an Indian Ship Agent to represent the owner/charterer.Also, the Indian agent should notify the Port authority and the Customs Collector at least 48 hours prior to the arrival of the ship about the details of the ship including insurance. Mr Vasan said that 93 Indian flag ships are over 25 years old. However, they will not be affected as they are all classed with the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS), which is a full member ...