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As the maritime industry celebrates World Maritime Day today, the spotlight shines on a half-century of progress in maritime safety, marked by the 50th

The World Shipping Council (WSC) has praised the approval of the recently adopted amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

The crew of the chemical tanker Silver Dover is being praised for rendering assistance to a boater in distress in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday morning,

By John Konrad (gCaptain) The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers

What is the “Eastland Phenomena”? by Dave Lochbaum (AllThingsNuclear) The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage has been immortalized in

With most of the recent regulatory focus being on the new SOLAS verified gross mass rule for packed containers, another new regulation has

A long-awaited new regulation requiring the gross mass of a container to be verified before it is loaded onto a ship enters into force on Friday amid some

  By Alex Lennane, TheLoadStar – The US Coast Guard (USCG), which this week added further confusion to the soon-to-be enforced SOLAS

The International Maritime Organization's Maritime Safety Committee has adopted new rules for ships powered by gases such as LNG and other low-flashpoint

More than half of the world’s tankers of 3,000 gross tonnes or more will comply with new SOLAS regulations on the mandatory carriage of

What exactly does the new Polar Code mean for ship

The International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) has approved long-awaited changes to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention

One hundred years ago today, on January 20, 1914, 13 nations agreed on the terms of the International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea, or

New regulations that will make it mandatory for containers to be weighed – or have their stated weight otherwise verified – are set to be

As of January 1, 2013, the International Maritime Organization has entered into force new regulations aimed at improving the energy efficiency of international

Video message by IMO Secretary General Mr. Koji Sekimizu on the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, recalling the improvements to passenger ship safety

Associations representing the global cruise industry have announced a new drill policy requiring mandatory muster drills for embarking passengers prior to

Some years ago in a now defunct navy journal an article was written about what people think when they fall overboard. Several predominant factors were

In past articles gCaptain contributor Mario Vittone has clearly illustrated the importance of flares in finding vessels in distress. And having nineteen years

On the morning of 9 March, marine authorities received a distress call from the MV ARAK AFRIKANA stating that they were taking on large amounts of water due to