Ballast Water Management Convention
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30 Nov 2012
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The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting, MEPC 64, held in October 2012, discussed several issues related to the Ballast Water Management Convention (BWM Convention) and reached the following conclusions:
IMPLEMENTATION DATES OF THE D-2 STANDARD (TREATMENT)
It was agreed that a Correspondence Group...
Latest IMO developments – MEPC 64 highlights
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13 Nov 2012
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The 64th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) was held at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) headquarters in London in October 2012. This newsletter covers selected highlights.HARMFUL AQUATIC ORGANISMS IN BALLAST WATER
Despite concerns raised by some industry representatives, the MEPC...
The 64th session of MEPC
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19 Oct 2012
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The 64th session of MEPC was held during the first week of October. This newsletter outlines the main outcome of this meeting regarding air pollution and GHG. In addition, there have been developments relating to the EU’s sulphur and GHG regulations.
Sulphur
IMO MEPC 64
There will be no preliminary study on fuel...
MARPOL Annex V, will enter into force on 1 January 2013
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22 Oct 2012
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This newsletter lists the main changes in the revised MARPOL Annex V, adopted on 15 July 2011 in resolution MEPC.201(62), which will enter into force on 1 January 2013.
The main changes in the revised MARPOL Annex V are as follows:
Practically all discharges of waste into the sea are prohibited, including cooking oil and...
Detainable PSC deficiencies related to Fire Safety
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03 Oct 2012
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1–20 September 2012. A checklist was released by the Tokyo and Paris MoUs containing 12 main focus areas. Based on this list, DNV distributed an extended checklist with some additional details and comments that it advised paying special attention.
As a risk-reduction measure, we recommend that the items covered by the...
