Tag: ICS

SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 23 sets out the principal requirements for the rigging of pilot ladders. These provisions are also set out in the IMO/IMPA Required Boarding Arrangements for Pilot poster, featured ICS/IMPA Shipping Industry Guidance on Pilot Transfer Arrangements.

In an updated version of ICS practical guide with regards to COVID-19 protection measures for crew onboard, it is highlighted that shipping companies should develop plans and procedures to address the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic to the health of seafarers and the safety of their ship operations.

In an updated version of ICS practical guide with regards to vaccination, it is highlighted that seafarers are required by the nature of their job to travel across the world to locations which have different levels of COVID-19 infections.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has called on governments around the world to ensure access to medical care for seafarers, after it emerged that crews continue to be refused urgent treatment at ports during the pandemic.

ICS warned of potential supply chain disruption should the free movement of Ukrainian and Russian seafarers be affected.

In January 2022, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) published the new edition (6th) of the Bridge Procedures Guide, seven years after the previous edition. Bridge procedure guide is an edition globally accepted as an industry’s best practice for bridge procedures.

ICS plans to mark its centenary and host a high-level summit to address the challenge of decarbonisation.

The annual Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table, from ICS, has identified reporting on seafarer wellbeing as a “casualty of the pandemic”.

ICS published the new edition of the Bridge Procedures Guide reflecting the rapid technological advances taking place in the shipping industry.

ICS has signed a Partnership Agreement with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to support the decarbonisation of the shipping sector and its role in the transition towards a global energy sector based on renewables.