IMO advancing work of safe transport of plastic pellets at sea with the issue of IMO circular as the first step of a two-stage approach to address the environmental risks associated with such carriage.
Terminal operators engaged in the loading and discharging of high density solid bulk cargoes are not always aware of the increased stress, torsional, bending and shear forces to which a vessel may b subjected during these operations, Very often speed of loading or discharging is the only considerati...
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This week’s meeting of the Implementation of IMO Instrument (III) Sub-Committee was in general business as usual because no controversial issues were raised. The bulk of the meeting papers consisted of the different Port State Control (PSC) regimes’ annual reports.