Marpol

Beady eye on EEDI

LNG Gas carriers are still a grey area in the now mandatory Energy Efficiency Design Index requirement for new vessels. SIGTTO has been working to clear things up

LNG tanker at sea

Barging through

INLAND WATERWAYS Updates to the ADN Regulations generally harmonise with those for road and rail transport but also have the unique requirement to govern transport in tank vessels. The Safety Committee spent a lot of time dealing with detailed provisions at its final meeting before publication of the 2013 text

Barge Argonon

Parcel force

TANKERS Regulation, vetting, inspection and environmental standards are becoming more and more stringent for chemical tanker operators. HCB spoke to Janet Strode, general manager of the International Parcel Tanker Association, who is fighting their corner

Man wearing Nordic Tankers overalls checking pipes

On the brink

MULTIMODAL As the scope of the UN model regulations extends into new areas, it is no surprise that the UN experts need time to reflect and consult with individuals even more expert in certain areas. By remitting so many papers back for further work, however, the Sub-committee does seem to have left a lot to be decided at this month’s final session of the current biennium

Winning football team

Shortcut to safety

When those nice people at DGAC asked me to give a presentation at their annual conference in Nashville last month, the topic of incidents and regulation

30 years ago

The big news in the November 1982 issue of HCB was that IMO’s Carriage of Dangerous Goods Sub-committee was debating long and hard on whether to include marine pollutants in the IMDG Code.

30 years ago

A look back at the pages of the Bulletin from 1982

Cast your mind back thirty years – if you are old enough. Containerised transport was still something of a new idea, and back in the October 1982 issue of HCB there was plenty of discussion about what it meant for the transport of dangerous goods.

Gas by sea

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is currently working on two pieces of regulation that will affect the design and construction of ships carrying gases as cargo and/or fuel.

SAMSA updates reporting requirement

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has issued a marine notice updating its oil spill reporting requirements as part of its application of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution by Ships (Marpol).

30 years ago

Human beings are remarkably adept at getting used to the way things are. It is, therefore, surprising to look back at old copies of HCB and remember how things used to be. 

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