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This notice sets out the assessment dates for small vessel Engineer Officer Merchant Navy Certificates of Competency (CoCs) from May 2026 until the end of the 2026/2027 academic year.
Notice to all shipowners, seafarers, nautical colleges and those concerned with merchant navy training.
This Marine Information Note is to highlight that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has recently adopted voluntary guidelines relating to biofouling and underwater noise.
This notice advises what medical conditions are required to be reported on during the validity of an ENG1 medical certificate.
The Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system provides for the global identification and tracking of ships. Under SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 19-1, vessels >300 GT on international voyages are required to tran…
A summary of statutory guidelines for employing any person under the age of 18, and the outer cover.
Download supplementary information signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seafarers'.
Download 'prohibited' action signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
Download 'must do' action signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
Download warning information signs from the 'Code of Safe Working Practices (COSWP) for Merchant Seamen'.
A reminder to owners, operators, masters and pilots about best practice safely navigating a vessel in pilotage waters.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors, about inspecting ships' navigation lights, sound and visual signalling equipment.
Record of prosecutions resulting from breaches of maritime legislation: court hearings from January 2019.
Record of prosecutions resulting from breaches of maritime legislation: court hearings from January to December 2010.
Reports on the economic impact on business of guidance regulation from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Instructions for the guidance of surveyors in survey and inspection of ‘GMDSS’ radio installations on ships for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the various Statutory Instruments covering merchant shipping.
Report from Southampton Solent university into the investigation of the 8-hours on / 8-hours off seafarers watch keeping system.
The majority of the ILO 188 work in fishing convention will phase in between the 31 December 2018 and 30 November 2019.
Wellbeing principles specifically aimed at Emergency Response volunteers.
A list of the withdrawn consolidated European reporting system advice notes
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