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UK and international codes and standards for vessel stability and loadlines, safety advice and regulations for boatmasters, designers or shipbuilders dealing with vessel stability.
How to account for VAT on services when a vehicle, ship or aircraft is provided, together with a driver or crew for the transport of goods.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Recasting the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations to reflect up to date requirements as contained in the International Load Line Convention 1966 (ILLC) and Protocol 1998 (ILLP)
Understand how trading conditions and insurance can limit the financial risk for freight forwarders.
Find out about safety and security requirements that apply to goods entering and exiting the UK.
Customs and security requirements for rail freight movements entering or leaving the UK.
Key regulations on tonnage measurement, weighing, safe loading, unloading and carriage of cargo, and passenger and personnel safety issues for ships.
Guidance on the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998, amended by the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
How to decide on a load securing system, what to check before loading a vehicle, and how to stabilise a load.
A guide to the international regulations on the transportation of dangerous goods by air, sea, road, rail or inland waterway.
Guidance and clarification on the Merchant Shipping International Load Line Convention (Amendment) regulations 2018
Guidance for EU exporters, exporters from rest of the world and UK importers, on how to import groupage or mixed load consignments of animal products into Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
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