Red Ensign Group to launch Large Yacht Code on 1 January 2019


Teamwork between members of the Red Ensign Group (REG) and the industry as a whole has led to the creation of a new yacht code.


In its new format, the Code is made up of two parts with common annexes, for example, over-side working systems, sailing vessels and helicopter landing areas. It will keep the familiar format of the existing REG codes while being more dynamic to industry change and development.


Work has been carried out across the REG to get the new code ready for its launch and also within the industry. One consultation alone brought in more than 700 comments as part of that active discussion with those involved with large yachts.


The new REG Code combines the existing Large Yacht Code 3 and the Passenger Yacht Code into one document and will come into force on 1 January 2019, giving the industry time to become familiar with it.


Jo Assael, senior surveyor and yacht code specialist for the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry, worked with industry to help shape the new code. He said: “We wanted to make the code more usable and wrote in greater flexibility so that naval architects, designers and owners can get what they want out of a superyacht.


“It was important to make sure that we are regulating for today and not for how yachts were being built when this code first came out in 1997.


IIMS has commissioned REG to write an in-depth article to be published in the June edition of the Report Magazine. Read the story in full and access the new Code and its various parts in pdf format at https://bit.ly/2IZtTfv


IMO adopts climate change


strategy for shipping Nations meeting at the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London recently have adopted an initial strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships, setting out a vision to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping and phase them out, as soon as possible in this century.


The vision confirms IMO’s commitment to reducing GHG emissions from international shipping and, as a matter of urgency, to phasing them out as soon as possible.


More specifically, under the identified “levels of ambition”, the initial strategy envisages for the first time a reduction in total GHG emissions from international shipping which, it says, should peak as soon as possible and to reduce the total annual GHG emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008, while, at the same time, pursuing efforts towards phasing them out entirely.


The strategy includes a specific reference to “a pathway of CO2 emissions reduction consistent with the Paris Agreement temperature goals”.


The initial strategy was adopted by IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), during its 72nd session at IMO Headquarters in London, United Kingdom. The meeting was attended by more than 100 IMO Member States.


The full story is here https://bit.ly/2HazWMQ


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