New Publications
SOLAS Circular 2025-004 New SOLAS requirements for Lifting Appliances
This Circular provides guidance on the implementation of SOLAS Regulation II-1/3-13, adopted by Resolution MSC.532(107), introducing statutory requirements for the testing, examination, certification, and maintenance of lifting...
Directive 001-2026 Merchant Shipping (Testing of Lifting Appliances) Repeal Directive 2025
This Directive may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Testing of Lifting Appliances) Repeal Directive 2025 and shall come into force on 1 January 2026
STCW Circular 2025 -003 Amendments to STCW Regulation VI, Basic Training, and Familiarization
This Circular provides information on the amendments to table A-VI/1-4 of the STCW Code, on “Mandatory minimum requirements for safety familiarization, basic training and instruction for all seafarers”. A new competence has been added to the table: “Contribute to the...
Media
The Director of the Antigua and Barbuda’s Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) elected to Chair one of the five Committees of the International Maritime Organisation, a United Nations Specialized Agency.
The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Technical Cooperation Committee (TCC) elected Ambassador Dwight C. R. Gardiner of Antigua and Barbuda by acclimation as the Chairman at its 73rd Session being held over the period 16 to 20 October 2023, at the IMO...
Indian Ocean MOU CIC for 2023 will be on Fire Safety Systems
The member Authorities of the Indian Ocean Memorandum of Understanding (IOMOU) on port State control will launch a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on “Fire Safety”. Inspection campaign will commence from 1 September, 2023 and will continue till 30 November...
Caribbean MOU CIC for 2023 will be on Fire Safety Systems and Pilot Ladder Transfer Systems
Launch of Concentrated Inspection Campaign on FSS and Pilot Ladder Transfer Systems beginning 1 September 2023 by Caribbean MOU on Port State Control
