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A safety message to the shipping industry about mobile phone distraction and the importance of providing a safe means of segregating vehicles and pedestrians.
Location: Berth Stomkaje, Port of Bremerhaven, Germany.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that seven foreign flagged ship remained under detention in UK ports at the end of September after failing Paris MOU Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
Owners and operators of seagoing ships and large yachts are responsible for the health and safety of seafarers
Location: Off the River Humber, England.
Latest report from the RHC, an independent group of scientific, regulatory and industry experts, created to help unleash UK innovation through regulation.
Guidance on how the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 will further affect the types of weapons which may be carried onboard ships.
How ship security is managed in the UK, and how to comply with UK regulations on ship security.
This MGN provides guidance on the harmonization of existing requirements for watertight doors in cargo ships in the 1988 Load Line Protocol, MARPOL, IGC Code and IBC Code with those in SOLAS.
Entry into enclosed spaces onboard ships is sometimes a necessary but dangerous work activity. This guidance outlines regulations and provides information and advice on how to identify an enclosed space and how to reduce the risk to life.
Provides guidance on the application of SOLAS Chapter VI in the UK and on UK ships, to be read alongside the Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Cargoes) Regulations 2024.
UK class III, VI and VI(A) steel or equivalent ships built before 1 July 1998 to phase-in requirements of Annex 1 council directive 98/18/EC
Proposals for implementing an effective enforcement regime for the EU ship recycling regulation.
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