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The IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC) held its 8th session from January 17 to 21, 2022. ABS provides an overview of the more significant issues progressed at this session, highlighting that the Sub-Committee finalized draft mandatory safety regulations for ships carrying more than 12 industrial personnel (IP); finalized the draft explanatory notes to the interim guidelines on the second-generation intact stability criteria and also; finalized revised draft performance standards for water level detectors.
Key Developments of IMO SDC 8
-New SOLAS Chapter XV – Carriage of Industrial Personnel / IP Code
-Amendments to ESP Code
-Workplan on Underwater Noise Reduction
-Asbestos on Offshore Units
-Emergency Towing Equipment for Ships Other Than Tankers
New SOLAS Chapter XV – Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel
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The International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC) is still operating in the Middle East Gulf, as it led a bilateral exercise in the Arabian Gulf.
Royal Bahraini Naval Ship Hawar partnered with U.S. Coast Guard to conduct communications drills and tactical manoeuvres, which increased overall interoperability between coalition militaries to provide maritime stability in the region.
The exercise also aims to promote maritime stability, ensure safe passage, and enhance freedom of navigation throughout key waterways in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Oman.
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The European Union (EU) aims to continue the deployment of its member states’ warships in the Gulf of Guinea to address maritime piracy in the area.
After reviewing the Coordinated Maritime Presences (CMP) pilot program in which member states have been deploying warships to the region over the last two years, the EU now wants to maintain its presence, taking into consideration the threat of piracy and other illegal activities in the Gulf of Guinea.
Namely, the EU suggests a two-year extension of the CMP mandates beginning from January, also outlining deployments of Danish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish warships into the region.
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Reporting indicates that the owners of the product vessel MT B Ocean have lost contact with the vessel on the evening of the 24th January 22.
The vessel was operating as a bunker vessel 54nm SSW of Abidjan when contact was lost and this was a cyber-attack,
More specifically, the pirates boarded and hijacked the vessel before departing the vessel with stolen cargo. All crew are reported safe.
Law enforcement agencies have now been tasked with tracking the vessel.
While further details remain unclear, information released by MDAT GoG indicated that a report had been received from local fishermen along the western coast of Ghana indicating that a group of unidentified individuals had been sighted reportedly putting to see a local fishing boat with a high-powered outboard motor in the early hours of 24 January 2022.