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The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has authorised the issue of electronic statutory certificates (e-certificates) to Bahamian ships by certain Recognised Organisations. The BMA supports efforts to reduce administrative burdens and increase operational efficiency on ships and recognises the use of e-certificates in lieu of traditional paper certificates. The use of

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On 9 February 2018 the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) prepared the text of the 2018 Guidelines for the application of MARPOL Annex I requirements to floating production, storage and offloading facilities (FPSOs) and floating storage units (FSUs). The purpose of these Guidelines

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We would like to inform you that the European Commission has developed a free of charge web-platform that could represent an opportunity for our industry to offer expertise to offshore competent authorities thus developing our businesses and networking. The web-platform, called Virtual Centre of Offshore Safety Expertise (ViCOS), is available

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Dear colleagues, We are making improvements to the eCMID vessel inspection database in response to the marked increase in use of the offshore vessels’ inspection scheme. Over 2,300 vessels from more than 1,000 owners and operators are now listed on the eCMID database, and this is consulted by more than

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The tripartite Offshore Major Accident Hazards Advisory Committee (OMAHAC) brings together representatives from the regulators, installation operators and owners, and workers to support the work of the Offshore Safety Directive Regulator (OSDR). Major topic areas are included in the agenda of the Committee, which meets twice per year, such as

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The United Kingdom has decided that Recognised Organisations acting on behalf of the United Kingdom and its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, who have been individually so authorised, will be allowed to issue electronic certificates. Electronic certificates issued by a Recognised Organisation acting on behalf of the United Kingdom and

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The IMCA Marine Renewable Energy Walk to Work (W2W) Decision Support Tool is intended as a guide for supporting those companies who have determined a need for a W2W solution to help identify key considerations when developing their W2W configuration. Originally issued with the following reference(s): IMCA M 01/18

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Some of our members will have recently received a letter from Oil and Gas UK advising of forthcoming changes to the OPITO BOSIET / FOET / HUET training course. It has been noted that these forthcoming changes may cause specific issues for a proportion of your marine personnel. A copy

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The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) has released Geomatics Guidance Note 24 on Vertical data in oil and gas applications. This guidance note discusses issues associated with vertical Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs), in particular those related to coordinate operations (coordinate conversions and coordinate transformations) and metadata. It is

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Objective of the consultation Regulation (EU) 757/2015 on monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport was adopted and entered into force in 2015. It sets an EU wide scheme for reporting monitored and verified data on shipping CO₂ emissions (EU MRV) applying to activities carried out

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Copied here is a communication received from Saravan Marappan of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Energy (Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment & Decommissioning) with the intention of providing guidance for safety cases. Please be advised that the Competent Authority Portal industry user guidance for safety cases is

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MEPC 71 was held at IMO headquarters in London from 3 to 7 July 2017. Although not unusual for this Committee, this was another session heavily laden with many urgent and significant items. Two main items dominated the discussions of the Committee: first the prevention of atmospheric pollution from ships,

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In this update – Early implementation of IMO instruments; LSA Code; MODU Code; Adoption of ships’ roueting systems; Development of regulations for autonomous ships; Maritime cyber risk management; Approval of Lifeboats Guidelines; Adoption of Dynamic Positioning Guidelines; Piracy; Non-SOLAS vessels operating in polar regions; Next sessions – MSC 99 and

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The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) has made new and recent releases of SSDM V2 and P6/11 V1.1. Please see these two news items (also published via IOGP pages: www.iogp.org/blog/category/press-releases/geomatics-press-releases), which are aimed at its stakeholders and the wider oil & gas industry, notifying us of: First,

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