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Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), 96th session, 11-20 May 2016
Summary now available to download –
http://www.imo.org/en/
- Construction rules verified as conforming to goal-based standards (See press briefing 13/2016)
- Survival craft safety: SOLAS amendments adopted – The MSC adopted amendments to SOLASregulations III/3 and III/20 to make mandatory the Requirements for maintenance, thorough examination, operational testing, overhaul and repair of lifeboats and rescue boats, launching appliances and release gear, which were also adopted at the session.
- Adoption of other amendments – Amendments to SOLAS regulation II-2/13 to extend the requirements for evacuation analysis to all passenger ships, not just ro-ro passenger ships; Amendment 38-16 to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code; Amendments to chapter 8 of the International Code for Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code) regarding prevention of internal corrosion and clogging of sprinklers and a new chapter 17 of the FSS Code
- Advice regarding the verification of the gross mass of packed containers loaded before 1 July 2016and transhipped on or after 1 July 2016 agreed (See press briefing 14/2016)
- Cyber security – interim guidelines approved
- Guidance for developing national maritime security legislation approved
- Carriage of industrial personnel – outline for new SOLAS chapter and code endorsed
- Recognition of Galileo as a component of the Word Wide Radionavigation System (WWRNS).
- Ships routeing systems adopted
- Noise reduction – guidance on application of requirements approved
- Training for polar waters and passenger ship emergency training requirements approved
- Review of the 1995 STCW-F Convention agreed
- Intact Stability Code – Towing, including escort towing, and lifting operations amendments approved
- Passenger ship regulations amendments approved
