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An industry group of shipping and oil industry organizations have decided to reduce the geographic boundaries of the High Risk Area (HRA) for piracy in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, as of 1st May 2019, the regional UKHO Maritime Security Chart, Q6099 will be updated by Notice to Mariners and a new version will be produced to reflect those changes.

The PSC Authorities checked eleven items as mentioned in the CIC questionnaire in order to ensure whether vessels follow all provisions of MARPOL Annex VI and the prevention of air pollution.

Understanding SOPEP and SMEP is of paramount importance for maritime professionals in order to be prepared for an oil pollution incident.

The 2013 Vessel General Permit that replaced the 2008 Vessel General Permit, has incorporated a new requirements for a submission of an electronically annual report by February 28th covering activities conducted from January 1st, till December 31, of previous year.

China in order to support the IMO Data Collection System has set a regulation for reporting fuel consumption (from 01-01-2019) from all vessels entering/leaving China’s Ports.

As IMO’s MEPC 70 agreed that the effective date for implementation of 0.50% m/m sulfur globally will be the 1st January 2020, time is running faster for this global sulfur cap implementation.

Understanding SOPEP and SMEP is of paramount importance for maritime professionals in order to be prepared for an oil pollution incident.

Recently the revised BMP-5 (led the way of revised guidance due to differences to areas of interest and used methods of piracy attacks. Additionally OCIMF issued the Guidelines to Harden Vessels.