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IMO - site link
 
 
 
US Coast Guard - site link
 
Prevention of air pollution from ships, ship emissions, MARPOL Annex VI, greenhouse gases, fuels and climate change conferences.
 
Shipping and CO2 (International Chamber of Shipping)
 
 
 
High-speed Craft (IMO) - site link
 
IMO Secretary-General has highlighted the need for the Organization to respond to an issue of growing global concern, namely the plight of refugees and asylum seekers who become rescued from the sea. "Recent events involving survivors of distress incidents, asylum seekers, refugees and stowaways have caused justified concern worldwide. The Organization's concern", he said, "is with safety at sea".
 
A comprehensive security regime for international shipping entered into force on 1 July 2004. The mandatory security measures, adopted in December 2002, include a number of amendments to the 1974 Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS), the most far-reaching of which enshrines the new International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code), which contains detailed security-related requirements for Governments, port authorities and shipping companies in a mandatory section (Part A), together with a series of guidelines about how to meet these requirements in a second, non-mandatory section (Part B). THIS PAPER IS AVAILABLE BY REQUEST ONLY: pbarreto@imo.org
 
ISM Code (IMO)  - PDF
In July 1998 the ISM Code became mandatory for passenger ships, tankers and high-speed craft. The Code establishes safety-management objectives and requires a safety management system (SMS) to be established by "the Company".
 
 
Work is on-going at IMO on the development of mandatory requirements, a reporting system for ships destined for recycling, the development of a "single list" of potentially hazardous materials on board, the issue of the abandonment of ships on land or in port, the promotion of the implementation of the Guidelines on ship scrapping and technical co-operation.
 
In 1978, IMO adopted the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), which established internationally-recognized minimum standards for seafarers.