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Life-saving and fire-fighting equipment that ships must carry and how to maintain and service it.
A summary of statutory guidelines for employing any person under the age of 18, and the outer cover.
Guidance on when seafarers and other persons who work at sea are entitled to the minimum wage.
Find out the VAT liability for supplying ships, trains, aircraft and associated services in the UK.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Instructions on applying for STCW watch ratings, yacht ratings, or able seafarer certificates and information on gaining an efficient deck hand certificate
How to comply with merchant shipping (Maritime Labour Convention)(survey and certification) regulations 2013.
This Marine Guidance Note provides the UK shipping industry with best practice guidance to facilitate safe carriage, and potential charging of, electric vehicles onboard roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) passenger ferries. The MCA has developed this guidance in conjunction with, and at...
Amendment 2 gives guidance on the measures that shipowners and employers are expected to take in order to provide for safe movement on board UK ships.
Amendment 1 outlines advice and procedures for safe conduct of diving operations especially where diving operations are not controlled by the vessel owner.
Create and submit catch records for all English and Welsh under 10 metre (U10m) flag vessels that fish in UK waters.
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