NEW marine repor ts and guides
The Future of Maritime Safety 2023: collaboration and data are key in tackling safety challenges Inmarsat’s new safety report analyses Global Maritime Distress and
Safety System (GMDSS) information that has registered 853 distress calls from January to December 2022, an increase from 794 calls the previous year.
Safety data and reports can be used to proactively tackle the root causes of repeated and well-known safety issues to reduce incidence rates, rather than just monitor trends and improve incident response.
In this report you will discover how maritime safety data and reports can be analysed to improve maritime safety through adopting goal-based safety standards, creating and utilising standardised international marine casualty and incident data and sharing anonymised data between international and national safety bodies plus much more.
To improve standards and reduce the human, environmental and financial impact of marine casualties, the Future of Maritime 2023 report calls for cooperation and collaboration built on solid data and the collective desire to manage risk to the lowest practicable level.
This year’s report also reveals that the number of distress calls from ships at sea remains high, despite a continuing decline in vessel losses as well as The Future of Maritime Safety Report 2023 provides insights into vessel distress, derived from the Inmarsat’s Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) data gathered in 2022.
Key highlights - Analysis of aggregated data registered over Inmarsat RescueNET services received during 2022, and comparisons with statistics arising from data received in 2021 and earlier.
- Distress calls analysed by vessel type, gross tonnage, year of build, seasonal weather, Flag State and more.
- 853 GMDSS distress calls registered on Inmarsat networks in 2022, up from 794 in 2021.
- Safety should be prioritised as shipping moves towards greater digitalisation and adopts new fuel and propulsion technology for its decarbonisation journey.
- Seafarer well-being remains a core component of safety and must remain high on the post-pandemic agenda.
- Regulation, the human element - including human- centric design, - and technology need to be integrated to address safety challenges as shipping transitions to alternative fuels, adopts decarbonisation technologies, and continues to digitalise.
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ABS publishes the January 2024 Edition of Guide for Performance Standards for Corrosion Protection The American Bureau of Shipping has published the January
2024 Edition of Guide for Performance Standards for Corrosion Protection.
Corrosion protection requirements are specified in SOLAS Chapter II-1/3-2 for protective coatings of dedicated seawater ballast tanks in all types of ships and protective coatings of double-side skin spaces of bulk carriers, and in SOLAS Chapter II-1/3-11 for protective coatings or corrosion resistance materials of cargo oil tanks of crude oil tankers.
SOLAS Chapter II-1/3-11 specifies additional corrosion protection requirements for the cargo oil tanks of crude oil tankers contracted on or after 1 January 2013.
In 2019, this Guide superseded the ABS Guide for the Class Notation Coating Performance Standard (CPS) and introduced the additional ABS CPS-COT and CorrResistant notations for compliance with the SOLAS Chapter II-1/3-11 requirements for cargo oil tanks.
January 2024 Edition introduces CPS-B (seawater ballast tanks), CPS-D (double-skin spaces), and CPS-V (void spaces) notations to denote the area to which approved protective coatings are applied.
CPS-B, CPS-D, CPS-V, CPS-COT, and CorrResistant notations are intended for all SOLAS-compliant vessels but may also be issued to other types of vessels such as non-SOLAS vessels, MODU CODE compliant vessels, and ship-type floating production installations.
This Guide is provided to identify compliance with the IMO regulations on corrosion protection for the builders, owners, and operators of vessels classed with ABS.
The notations can help to promote the effective application of the IMO Performance Standards on ABS-classed vessels.
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https://bit.ly/3ERYSIP. Or scan the QR code.
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