This post is about interpretations of Maritime Regulations. To write something useful, I was trying to find my way through the IMO website. Every time I find new stuff here. Now I found this IMO recommendations on how to reduce administrative work. Lots of recommendations on how to avoid and reduce administrative burdens. […]
Different kind of Maritime Regulations on Your Ship
Different kind of Maritime Regulations on Your Ship starts with the big foundation laid down by the IMO and a little by the ILO. These minimum technical standards for a ship are the protocols like SOLAS, MARPOL, Load Line, ISM, ISPS etc… and of course the MLC2006 from the ILO. As you already can […]
The Practical Overview of Maritime Regulations at Work
This page is the overview and shows the interaction between all maritime organizations like e.g. the flag states and class societies. All of these organization has their own inspectors. In the end a small page is about vetting and insurance. Oh, and if your browser was not up to date, then later on this page […]
the History of Maritime Regulations in a blink
Despite all the maritime regulations, the Costa Concordia still capsized and 32 people lost their lives. This accident happened in 2012. A quick overview about the history of maritime regulations, which created the feeling that this ship was build like a Titanic. Unsinkable, but unfortunately source for debate and new maritime regulations. In the […]
Law of the Sea former know as Maritime or Admiralty Law
Most of the times the different wordings are used for the same thing. Law of the Sea is the convention from 1982. One of the subjects it discusses are the boundaries of the coastal state but there are 300 articles with all kind of subjects. Environmental issues, passage through straits, legislation of a ship all belongs […]