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Source: IMO website - IMO's treaty for safe and environmentally-sound ship recycling has received another boost.

Source: Splash 24/7 - Lubes Headache brewing - Fuel choices have obscured the complex issues over lube selection ahead of IMO 2020. Here’s a useful guide to the problems coming up and how to handle them.

Source: International Chamber of Shipping - The ICS Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table brings together data available in the public domain regarding the performance of flag states in terms of, inter alia, Port State Control records, ratification of international Conventions, and IMO meeting attendance.

Source: IOM Ship Registry Website- The Department for Enterprise has announced the appointment of Cameron Mitchell as the next Director of the Isle of Man Ship Registry.

3/13/2019 Source: SKANReg Press release - Nigel Smith, inaugural International Registrar of the London-headquartered St Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry (SKANReg), is retiring in May after 47 years in the shipping industry.  

3/7/2019 Source: European Maritime Safety Agency - This document provides best practice guidance and a harmonised approach to sampling for compliance in accordance with Article 9 of the IMO Ballast Water Convention 2004.

2/26/2019 Source: ICS - The International Chamber is pushing back concerning the possible loophole reported by Tradewindsnews.com (Regulators allow shipowners a safety loophole on IMO 2020, 2/25/2019.)

Here's the ICS press release

Source: UK MCA -  The Maritime & Coastguard Agency would like to make Operators that use the Global Positioning System (GPS) for both position and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), aware that the GPS Week Number will be rolling over for the second time, on April 6 th, 2019.

2/13/2019 Source: BIMCO - BIMCO has proposed that the Fourth International Maritime Organization (IMO) Greenhouse Gas Study does not include unrealistically high gross domestic product (GDP) growth projections to predict future transport demand - and thereby emissions - of the shipping industry.

2/8/2019 Source: AMSA - The plan prepares vessels for transit through environmentally sensitive areas such as the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait. All Masters and coastal pilots transiting these areas should consider the information in the QCPP when preparing their passage plans.