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The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972, also known as Collision Regulations (COLREGs), are published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and set out, among other things, the "rules of the road" or navigation rules to be followed by ships and other vessels at sea to prevent collisions between two or more vessels.
Navy Regulations began with the enactment by the Second Continental Congress of the "Rules for the Regulation of the Navy of the United Colonies" on November 28, 1775. [1] The first issuance by the United States Government which covered this subject matter was "An Act for the Government of the Navy of the United States," enacted on March 2 ...
Admiralty law or maritime law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes. Admiralty law consists of both domestic law on maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between private parties operating or using ocean-going ships.
The Act establishes a regime for ship's crews, establishing authority of ship's masters over management and discipline of ship's crews, as well as giving ship's crews authority over passengers. The Act furthermore gives authority of the ship's master over stowaways equivalent to that of crew. The Act also creates an obligation for physicians or ...
Research and development grant and cooperative agreements regulations 386 Regulations governing public buildings and grounds at the United States Merchant Marine Academy: 387 Utilization and disposal of surplus Federal real property for development or operation of a port facility 388 Administrative waivers of the Coastwise Trade Laws: 390
A coalition of environmental groups has sued the federal government to try to force the finalization of ship speed rules that the groups say are critically important to save a vanishing species of ...
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships. The groups filed ...
Stern of the container ship Nord Independence, showing the ship's flag state (Panama) The flag state of a merchant vessel is the jurisdiction under whose laws the vessel is registered or licensed, and is deemed the nationality of the vessel. A merchant vessel must be registered and can only be registered in one jurisdiction, but may change the ...