9. a)


b) c)


d) e)


f) g) h)


Let's recap. A at every major accident, the ISM code is almost forgotten:


So, is the ISM code a scam, or not a scam? i)


Company's top executives still get away almost without consequences.


The company itself sometimes disappears (Townsend Thoresen) but reborn under another name in virtually the same state (P&O).


The Master himself/herself, never gets away without damage even when he/she has nothing to complain about (Capt BARDARI, MATHUR, MANGOURAS and SCHETTINO apart).


The Ship's Captain always looks like the scapegoat, which is right for a lot of people finally!


The flag Authorities always get away without trouble (ERIKA, CONCORDIA).


The class, to which the flag delegates more and more, also always gets away without too much trouble - because we need it so much?


The SMS of the company derived from the ISM code ensures in theory and at a minimum a complete compliance with the mandatory rules and regulations, why then do we still need periodic visits from the flag and these Port State Controls. ISM certification should be sufficient! You will understand that the sailors wonder if we don't care a little about them at the end.


Despite a lot of rather blurry passages in the ISM code, we detail only the accompanying circulars, which some flags ostensibly ignore.


102 | ISSUE 110 | DEC 2024 | THE REPORT j)


How, for a code considered a pillar of maritime safety do we not have an associated STCW training certificate? That we have on the other hand for the ISPS including for all crew members when the security of the ship is only part of the safety.


We persist in using the term company "should" therefore without obligation despite the code entered in SOLAS as Chapter IX and this is often used by some shipowners to avoid some requirements


ISM training is still a random field, while the code is considered one of the best initiatives in our industry since SOLAS. It's as it was more than 30 years after the analysis of the first impacts of the code, we are still wondering how to rectify the fatal error of the beginning. That we have forgotten the training, we admit it implicitly but as we never recognize our mistakes at IMO, it's hard to rectify.


As for the application of the ISM code, despite the efforts of IMO, especially in the training of certifiers, we always find strange weak SMS, but always certified compliant and operational of course. We are not going to demolish a shipowner for that.


It may still be over the time of copied/poorly copied manuals that we found in the 2000s but if compliance has evolved, quality is far from the top level always mainly because of a lack of adequate training of all operators, from the CEO to the seafarers through to the Master him/herself!


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