Safety Of Life At Sea convention
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has amended the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention to require that a packed container’s gross weight be verified before the container can be loaded on board a ship The new rule will come into force on 1 July 2016 and will apply globally. In a series of three articles, Elizabeth…
Passenger ships are monitored regularly following international standards for the safety of passengers and crew. Minimum standards were put in place more than a century ago, after the sinking of the Titanic. When was the first convention for the safety at sea created? The first convention originated in the wake of the sinking of the…
New requirements for musters of newly embarked passengers prior to or immediately upon departure come into force January 1, 2015. Further SOLAS amendments entering into force address enclosed-space entry and rescue drills and the code for recognized organizations. The amended regulation III/19 in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea was adopted in…
USEFUL FOR ALL OWNERS/MANAGERS: Keeping updated on new and retroactive requirements from IMO can be a challenge. Hence DNV-GL has made a summary with the most important IMO requirements entering into force from 1st July 2014 to 1st January 2016 inclusive. Click below to access the list of requirements. DNV-GL_Statutory_Update_2014-12-01
The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), which met at the Organization’s London headquarters for its 94th session, from November 17-21, 2014, approved draft SOLAS amendments to make mandatory the International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low- flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code); adopted other SOLAS amendments; continued its work on…
