1 January 2021 – MARPOL amendments – Cargo residues and tank washings

ByEditor 2020-12-292021-08-04

Amendments to MARPOL Annex II to strengthen, in specified sea areas, discharge requirements for cargo residues and tank washings containing persistent floating products with a high-viscosity and/or a high melting point that can solidify under certain conditions (e.g. certain vegetable oils and paraffin-like cargoes), following concerns about the environmental impact of permissible discharges.

The amendments add new paragraphs to MARPOL Annex II Regulation 13 – Control of discharges of residues of noxious liquid substances, to require prewash and discharge of residue/water mixture generated during the prewash to a reception facility, for specific products, in specified areas (North West European waters, Baltic Sea area, Western European waters and Norwegian Sea).

Source: WWW.IMO.ORG

Marine Survey

1 January 2024 – SOLAS records of equipment, FSS code, IGF code, LSA code

ByEditor 2021-12-022021-12-02

1 January 2024 – SOLAS records of equipment, FSS code, IGF code, LSA code Adopted by MSC 101: Amendments to the appendix to the annex to the 1974 SOLAS, concerning the addition of a footnote to Forms C, E and P in the Records of Equipment. Amendments to chapter 15 of the International Code for…

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1 June 2022 – IMDG Code 40-20, Adopted by MSC 102:

ByEditor 2020-12-292021-08-02

Amendments to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code) (amendment 40-20) related to segregation requirements for alcoholates; segregation in relation to liquid organic substances; classification and transport of carbon, following incidents involving the spontaneous ignition of charcoal; classification of UN portable tanks for multimodal transport; and provisions for labels. Source: WWW.IMO.ORG

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1 January 2023 – STCW / ESP

ByEditor 2022-07-112022-07-12

Adopted by MSC 103: Amendments to International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), adding the definition of “high-voltage” in STCW regulation I/1. Amendments to section A-I/1 of the STCW Code, including the capacity “electro-technical officer” in the definition of “operational level”, as a consequential amendment to the introduction of this capacity as part…

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1 June 2022, Adopted by MEPC 75: Amendments to BWM Convention

ByEditor 2021-08-072021-08-08

Amendments to BWM Convention Amendments to the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (BWM Convention), concerning commissioning testing of ballast water management systems and the form of the International Ballast Water Management Certificate. Source: WWW.IMO.ORG

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1 December 2023 – IMSBC Code

ByEditor 2022-07-112022-07-12

Adopted by MSC 105: Updates to the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMSBC) Code, to include new definitions (including an updated definition for group A cargoes), references and requirements for cargoes which may undergo dynamic separation. Section 7 will be amended to cover cargoes which may liquefy or undergo dynamic separation. The section aims to…

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1 January 2023- Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems- MEPC 76

ByEditor 2022-07-112022-07-12

Adopted by MEPC 76: Amendments to the IMO Convention for the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships (AFS Convention), to include controls on the biocide cybutryne. Ships shall not apply or re-apply anti-fouling systems containing this substance from 1 January 2023. Ships shall remove or apply a coating to AFS with this substance at the…

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