The IMO Performance Standards permit National Maritime Safety Administrations to consider ECDIS as the legal equivalent to the charts required by regulation V/20 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention.

The quaintly-named grandfather clauses have been a feature of maritime safety and anti-pollution conventions for decades. They are designed to protect existing ships from the impact of amendments ...

It is mandated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) under the SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Convention. Ships have started to falsify AIS data in an effort to protect themselves from ...

project and the International Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). The OA-ICC has received direct and in-kind contributions from eight IAEA Member States (Australia, France, Italy (ENEA; ...

Therefore, it is especially gratifying to see that recommendations from the FSA-based approach have now reached the IMO SSE Subcommittee, which will make changes to SOLAS (the International ...