Tag: IMO

IMO Secretary-General launches Accident Zero initiative with IALA

Tanzania maritime security surveillance system handed over

Bahamas North America ECA alternative compliance

IMO set to collide with EU over vessel CO2 emissions

Limitation amounts set to increase, 10 September 2012

Impending IMO conventions highlighted by ABS

IMO ECDIS Model Course 1.27 The IMO ECDIS Model Course (1.27) has been revised to ensure that navigators understand ECDIS in the context of navigation and can demonstrate all competencies contained in and implied by STCW 2010. The new publication is entitled Model Course (1.27) 2012 Edition and is now available from the IMOLeading industry organisations wish to bring to the attention of all mariners, ship owners, managers, training providers and Authorities that competency in the use of ECDIS is essential for maritime safety, and following this revision, any Generic ECDIS Courses of less than 40 hours including robust evaluation, will not meet STCW requirements.The industry notes with concern that there are Administrations that are accepting courses that do not meet this IMO Guidance, which could cause ECDIS training compliance issues for seafarers and owners.The industry ECDIS Training Group also notes the conclusion of a recent report by the UK P&I Club (ECDIS - Navigational and Claims issues) that "With traditional damage defences of navigational error, heavy weather and crew negligence now being subjected to additional scrutiny, the ECDIS revolution may be the catalyst which sparks a new cycle in the claims sector and one which may be even more ...

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has called on governments and the shipping industry to take prompt and decisive action on a number of key issues.In a keynote address to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Conference in London today (12 September 2012), Mr. Sekimizu told shipowners that they had the power to encourage their flag States to ratify the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (Ballast Water Management Convention) as soon as possible, as well as to implement its provisions with immediate effect. He pointed to the good number of ballast water treatment technologies now approved and available, together with the fixed deadlines for their application contained in the Convention, as convincing reasons why the industry should not wait any longer to implement its provisions.Warning of the negative consequences of further delay in bringing the convention into force, Mr. Sekimizu said; "The problems associated with ballast water are inherently connected to the expansion of world trade. This is an issue from which the shipping industry cannot escape."The recent ratification of the Ballast Water Management Convention by Denmark (on 11 September 2012) brought the number of States to have ratified the Convention to 36, ...

Ratification of Anti- Fouling Systems Convention

Piracy: IMO s Response