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Organisations can apply for the Smart Shipping Acceleration Fund to use AI for projects that make UK waters safer, operations smoother and air cleaner.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Evidence requirement R100: The contribution of shipping to the English economy.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
This MSN provides the technical requirements of the obligations contained in the Merchant Shipping (Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/737).
Joint Statement by the Governments of Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Germany; Italy; Japan; Netherlands; New Zealand; Republic of Korea; Singapore; United Kingdom; and United States.
This Merchant Shipping Notice sets out a list of amendments to MSN 1698 which remove requirements contained within it that only apply to Class I and II ships.
How ship security is managed in the UK, and how to comply with UK regulations on ship security.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that four foreign flagged ship remained under detention in UK ports at the end of April after failing Paris MOU Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
The weekly shipping indicators dataset associated with the Faster indicators of UK economic activity research output.
This Merchant Shipping Notice forms an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/568) (“the 2023 Regulations”). This Notice is made mandatory by way of reference to it in those Regulations.
Post implementation review, key findings report and Regulatory Policy Committee report about the Ship to Ship Transfer Regulations.
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.
The Notice provides details of the medical certification exemption granted for existing fishers on vessels under 10m
Location: 700 miles east of Japan, North Pacific Ocean.
We are looking for innovative solutions to account for and track personnel aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth (QNLZ)
Location: North Pacific Ocean.
United Kingdom and world shipping fleets statistics on 31 December 2020.
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