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A complete detailed listing of all publications currently offered by IMO Publishing. Titles are also grouped alphabetically, by topic, publication date and language.
Bridge Resource Management
Model course 1.22
This model course is practical and theoretical and consists of a series of exercises performed on a ship handling simulator. Classroom lectures to provide the necessary theoretical background for the exercises are included. Particular items dealt with in these lectures are illustrated either by including them as part of an exercise or by a separate simulator demonstration. Bridge teamwork is dealt with either as interactive Computer Based Training (CBT) or lecture.
Basic Documents: Volume I
This edition incorporates amendments to the Convention on the International Maritime Organization up to December 2021.
It also includes amendments to the Rules of Procedure of:
- the Assembly up to December 2021;
- the Council up to November 2021;
- the Maritime safety Committee up to June 2017;
- the Legal Committee up to April 2017;
- the Marine Environment protection Committee up to July 2017;
- the Technical Cooperation Committee up to July 2017;
- the Facilitation Committee up to June 2018; and
- Meetings under the London Convention 1972 and the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention up to November 2018.
Basic Documents: Volume II
Basic documents Volume II is a compendium of basic documents on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its Training Institutions and Regional Centre.
Basic Training for Masters, Officers, Ratings and Other Personnel on Ships Subject to the IGF Code
This course gives practical guidance training and basic qualifications for seafarers responsible for the care and use of and in-emergency response to the fuel on board ships subject to the International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low-flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code). It contains exercises structured around the safe operation of ships their installations of systems for propulsion machinery and auxiliary power generation machinery using gas or other low-flashpoint fuel.
Ballast Water Management Convention and BWMS Code with Guidelines for Implementation
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast water and Sediments 2004 (BWM Convention) is concerned with preventing minimizing and ultimately eliminating the risks to the environment human health property and resources arising from the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens through the control and management of ships’ Ballast water and sediments. The BWM Convention also aims to avoid unwanted side-effects from that control and encourages developments in related knowledge and technology. The 2018 consolidated edition aims to provide an easy and comprehensive reference to the up-to-date provisions and Unified Interpretations of the Articles and Annex of the BWM Convention.
Ballast Water Management
This publication provides useful practical information to Governments particularly those of developing countries Administrations shipowners port State control authorities environmental agencies and other stakeholders on the implications of ratifying implementing and enforcing the Ballast water Management Convention. The aim is to encourage the further ratification and proper implementation and enforcement of the Convention. However it should be noted that for legal purposes the authentic text of the Convention should always be consulted.
Basic Training for Ships Operating in Polar Waters
Model course 7.11
This “basic” course provides training to navigation officers to operate ships in Polar waters and to address those additional provisions deemed necessary for consideration beyond existing requirements of the SOLAS and MARPOL Conventions in order to take into account the climatic conditions of Polar waters and to meet appropriate standards of Maritime safety and pollution prevention.
Basic Training for Oil and Chemical Tanker Cargo Operations
Model course 1.01
This course provides training for officers and ratings. It comprises a basic training programme appropriate to their duties including oil and chemical tanker safety Fire safety measures and systems pollution prevention operational practice and obligations under applicable laws and regulations. The course takes full account of section A-V/1-1 of the STCW Code adopted by the International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers as amended including the Manila amendments 2010.
Basic Training for Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations
This course provides training for officers and ratings. It comprises a basic training programme appropriate to their duties for liquefied gas tanker safety fire safety measures and cargo systems pollution prevention safe operational practice and obligations under applicable laws and regulations. The course takes full account of section A-V/1-2 of the STCW Code adopted by the International Convention on Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers as amended including the Manila amendments 2010.
BLU Code
Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers
BLU Code including BLU Manual contains the Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers incorporating all amendments up to and including 2010 and the Manual on loading and unloading of solid bulk cargoes for terminal representatives incorporating all amendments up to and including 2010. Also presented is Additional considerations for the safe loading of bulk carriers (MSC.1/Circ.1357).
BCH Code
The Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (BCH Code) presents amendments to the Code to reflect the 2007 revision of MARPOL Annex II and other amendments related to:
- Survey and certification
- Materials of construction
- Fire protection
- Personnel protection
- Certificate of fitness for the carriage of dangerous chemicals in bulk.
Bioremediation in Marine Oil Spills
The aim of these Guidelines is to provide users with clear criteria to enable them to evaluate the circumstances in which to consider the use of bioremediation for shoreline cleanup. These guidelines are not intended to address the treatment of waste-generated oil spills. They contain a summary of the most important bioremediation processes and decision-making criteria.