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While several functional activities are centered around ports, such as cargo handling and storage operations, intermodal connection, industrial activities, and port expansion, the most prevalent port activity is that of shipping, making the regulation of ports primarily driven by the IMO. [7]
The IMO has also taken action to mitigate the global effects of ballast water and sediment discharge, through the 2004 Ballast Water Management Convention, which entered into force in September 2017. [55] In December 2023 the IMO adopted a resolution targeting "dark fleet" tankers that form a risk by undertaking illegal and unsafe activities at ...
In 2009, IMO created Guide to the Good Practice for Port Reception Facilities Providers and Users. MEPC.1/Circ.671. This document describes the steps that need to be taken in order to effectively dispose of waste by ships at port reception facilities. [7] Next in 2012, IMO released the MARPOL Requirements for Port Reception Facilities. This ...
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) states that "The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) is a comprehensive set of measures to enhance the security of ships and port facilities, developed in response to the perceived threats to ships and port facilities in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the United States".
Objectives of IMO Routeing Schemes: Help reduce and manage head on situations for the streams of opposing traffic; Help manage crossing situation arising while entering or coming out of port; In areas of offshore activities, directives regarding safe distance from the installations; Providing routes for deep draught vessels
The Singapore project, which will not be ready until 2023, joins ExxonMobil's other major project aimed at meeting the IMO 2020 mandate, an upgrade to its Antwerp, Belgium refinery that currently ...
The English Channel connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Southern part of the North Sea and is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world with ships going in numerous direction: some are passing through in transit from the Southwest to Northeast (or vice versa) and others serving the many ports around the English Channel, including ferries crossing the Channel.
The report summed up the management's cavalier attitude towards safety in the following statement: 'From top to bottom the body corporate was infected with the disease of sloppiness' (Sheen, 1987). The Herald of Free Enterprise was a modern ferry equipped with advanced technology and operated by a highly qualified crew.