New Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low flashpoint Fuels

The draft International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code), along with proposed amendments to make the Code mandatory under SOLAS, were agreed by the inaugural session of the Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers (CCC 1).

23 September 2014

Denmark is putting ballast water exemptions on the agenda at the IMO

When the IMO’s environment committee, the MEPC, next meets in October, exemptions from the forthcoming ballast-water convention for ferries and others will be discussed at Denmark's behest.

15 August 2014

SOLAS rules for ships to be able to recover persons from the water enter into force

New requirements under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) to require all ships to have plans and procedures to recover persons from the water are among a set of SOLAS amendments entering into force on 1 July 2014.

Recovery of persons from the water

11 July 2014

Thank You Seafarers!

IMO will be celebrating the fourth edition of its global campaign: Day of the Seafarer, held every year on 25 June.

Seafarers are the people without whom food, clothes, gifts, gadgets or even basic needs would not reach our doors. We rely on them every day. Yet have you ever said thank you to a seafarer? Chances are you haven't.

10 June 2014

New regional structure for counter-piracy code implementation

Ministers from participating States in the Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden (the Djibouti Code of Conduct) have recognized the need to develop a mechanism for the region to run its own counter-piracy agenda, following the successful implementation by IMO of numerous projects aimed at impr

02 June 2014