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Location: On passage in the North Atlantic
A safety message to the shipping industry highlighting that full and relevant training is needed when any form of Inter-Departmental Flexibility is operated.
A safety message to the shipping industry after failure of bridge team management and onboard auditing led to the grounding and abandonment of a container ship.
Find out what you need to do when hiring crew to work on a ship or yacht - qualifications, certificates of competency, crew agreements and crew lists
Guidance for the maritime industry on the threat from aerial drones and potential response options.
Location: Off Jamaica.
Understand how trading conditions and insurance can limit the financial risk for freight forwarders.
HMS Trent seizes £204m of cocaine in latest drugs bust. It takes the total value of drugs seized in their Caribbean operation to more than half a billion.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
A list of shipping companies, and the doctors who are approved to carry out ENG 1 medicals for their employees.
This MGN provides guidance and clarification for aspects of MARPOL Annex V, polar code and merchant shipping (prevention of pollution by garbage from ships) regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/621).
Location: 11.6nm off Lizard Point, Cornwall, England.
Statistics on the size of the UK and world shipping fleets on 31 December 2016.
Location: Off Saint Mary's Sound, Isle of Scilly.
Complete form MSF 4744, to apply for the removal of a British ship from the UK Ship register.
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