Guidance and regulation

Details on how to dispose of your unwanted distress flares.

• From: Department for Transport and 1 others
• Updated: 1 January 2023

Plan to decarbonise the entire transport system in the UK.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 12 January 2023

• Additional information on assumptions used to develop decarbonising transport scenarios

  Background Decarbonising transport: a better, greener Britain was…

A strategic overview for responses to marine pollution from shipping and offshore installations

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 17 August 2017

The government’s route map for the transition to a future of zero emission shipping.

• From: Department for Transport and 1 others
• Updated: 11 July 2019

Updated guidance on how to process an application for the certification of UK vessels wherever they may be, or other vessels operating in UK waters that use Innovative Technology or where a risk-based approach is used.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 22 September 2023

Guidance on the implementation of Port Waste Reception Facilities for ships and harbours/ports/terminals. The purpose of revising this MGN is to reference new methods of payment for Port Waste Exemption application…

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 30 April 2024

An explanation of the UK shipping regulations relating to the prevention of pollution from sewage. Includes information on equipment requirements and exemptions for unmanned non-self-propelled barges.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 16 August 2023

Guidance on interpretation of The Merchant Shipping (Anti-Fouling Systems) Regulations 2024.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 18 April 2024

Guidance concerning the international convention for the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL) surveyors

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 9 November 2023

Research match-funding to accelerate the development of green corridors to and from the UK.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 5 April 2024

How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 22 November 2017

MCA guidelines for ports to ensure a co-ordinated local and national response to an oil spill.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 29 July 2021

This MGN provides guidance on the harmonization of existing requirements for watertight doors in cargo ships in the 1988 Load Line Protocol, MARPOL, IGC Code and IBC Code with those in SOLAS.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2023

Information on how businesses can offer a flare disposal service.

• From: Department for Transport and 1 others
• Updated: 1 January 2023

Overview of technical and operational measures to reduce GHG emissions from ships introduced through amendments to Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 3 April 2023

New international requirements, effective 01 January 2003 for provision of shipboard pollution emergency plans.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 28 December 2002

Guidance and technical information on the merchant shipping (prevention of air pollution from ships) regulations 2008.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 1 December 2008

Requirement to maintain compulsory insurance against liability for bunker oil pollution damage and information on the limits of liability.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 7 December 2017

List of contact details for fuel oil suppliers who are registered as compliant with MARPOL annex VI.

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 15 April 2024

This notice replaces MGN 649 (M).

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Updated: 5 May 2022