REGULATION news
and B-4 of SOLAS chapter II-1 related to watertight integrity requirements.
SOLAS Chapter II-1 - Water level detectors on multiple hold cargo ships other than bulk carriers and tankers - January 2024 Adopted by MSC 103.
Amendments to shipping regulations
This article offers information and an overview about various amendments which have either just become regulations, or which will do so later this year.
IMSBC Code - December 2023 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 that may liquefy or undergo dynamic separation.
SOLAS Chapter IV amendments - January 2024 Modernisation of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS). Adopted by MSC 105.
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), adopted in 1988, has been subject to review and modernisation with the aim to adapt to modern communication systems and remove carriage requirements for obsolete systems. MSC 105 adopted SOLAS amendments to modernize the GMDSS requirements, as well as consequential amendments to the High- Speed Craft (HSC), Special Purpose Ships (SPS) and Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU) Codes.
SOLAS records of equipment, FSS code, IGF code and LSA code - January 2024 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 Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code), relating to inert gas systems.
Amendments to parts A and A-1 of the International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low-flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code), including those relating to regulations on loading limit for liquefied gas fuel tanks, regulations for fuel distribution outside of machinery space, regulations for internal combustion engines of piston type and fire protection for fuel storage hold space; and amendments relating to the protection of the fuel supply for liquefied gas fuel tanks, aimed at preventing explosions.
Amendments to chapters IV and VI of the International Life-Saving Appliance Code (LSA Code), relating to general requirements for lifeboats and launching and embarkation appliances.
SOLAS Chapter II-1 - Towing and mooring equipment - January 2024 Adopted by MSC 102.
Amendments to chapter II-1 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) related to towing and mooring. The amendments to SOLAS regulation II-1/3-8 (Towing and mooring equipment), require appropriate and safe-to-use designs of mooring arrangements, and introduce a maintenance and inspection regime, as well as proper documentation.
Related guidelines were also adopted, covering the design of mooring arrangements and the selection of appropriate mooring equipment and fittings for safe mooring; and inspection and maintenance of mooring equipment including lines; as well as revised guidance on shipboard towing and mooring equipment. Amendments to parts B-1, B-2
New SOLAS regulation II-1/25-1 requiring water level detectors on multiple hold cargo ships other than bulk carriers and tankers.
SOLAS Chapter III - Survival craft embarkation and launching arrangements - January 2024
Amendments to SOLAS regulation III/33 and the LSA Code, aiming to remove the applicability of the requirements to launch free-fall lifeboats to test their strength with the ship making headway at speeds up to 5 knots in calm water on cargo ships of 20,000 GT and above.
FSS Code Chapter 9 - Fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems - January 2024
Chapter 9 of the International Code for Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code) relating to fault isolation requirements for individually identifiable fire detector systems installed in lieu of section identifiable fire detector systems on cargo ships and passenger ship cabin balconies; and clarifying the acceptability of less complex and costly section identifiable fault isolation for individually identifiable fire detector systems on cabin balconies; and clarifying the acceptability of less complex and costly section identifiable fault isolation for individually identifiable fire detector systems.
Revised Annexes to the International Convention on Load Lines - January 2024 Adopted by MSC 104.
A minor amendment to chapter II (Conditions of assignment of freeboard), as well as amendments to chapter III (Freeboards) of annex I (Regulations for determining load lines) of Annex B to the 1988 Load Lines Protocol, concerning watertight doors on cargo ships, and associated amendments concerning watertight doors on cargo ships to chapter 2 (Ship survival capability and location of cargo tanks) of the International Code of the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code).
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