International Maritime Organization

The Code aims, among other things, to establish an international framework for co-operation between Contracting Governments, Government agencies, local administrations and the shipping and port industries to detect security threats and take preventive measures against security incidents affecting ships or port facilities used in international trade and to establish relevant roles and responsibilities at the national and international level.

This publication, which supersedes the 1983 edition, comprises five parts, containing the texts of the Guidelines for Inert Gas Systems and of relevant IMO documents.

The content of the guidelines is based on current general practice used in the design and operation of inert gas systems and incorporates amendments adopted by the Maritime safety Committee at its forty-second, forty-eighth and fiftieth sessions. Provisions of SOLAS covering application and technical requirements, together with recent developments on regulations for chemical tankers, are included.

This electronic publication is intended to assist port State control officers, Administrators and other parties involved in the conduct of port State inspections in an easy-to-use and portable format. It provides the full texts of the List of instruments relevant to Procedures for port State control, 2023 published in appendix 20 of Procedures for port State control, 2023.

This edition presents updates including the 2022 Guidelines for briefsampling of anti-fouling systems on ships (resolution MEPC.356(78)), the 2022 Guidelines for the development of a Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) (resolution MEPC.346(78)), and the List of certificates and documents required to be carried on board ships, 2022 (FAL.2/Circ.133, MEPC.1/Circ.902, MSC.1/Circ.1646 and LEG.2/Circ.4).

The International Code on Intact Stability, 2008 (2008 IS Code) presents mandatory and recommendatory stability criteria and other measures for ensuring the safe operation of ships, to minimize the risk to such ships, to the personnel on board and to the environment.

The 2020 Edition features:

• an update of the 2008 IS Code, including all amendments that will have entered into force on 1 January 2020;
• minor additions and amendments to the mandatory part A of the Code;
• amendments to the Code’s recommendatory part B, including substantial additions to chapter 2 on Recommended design criteria for certain types of ships and chapter 3 on Guidance in preparing stability information, as well as the provision of a new annex 3;
• criteria based on the best state-of-the-art concepts available at the time they were developed; and influences on intact stability, as contained in the previous edition; and
• Explanatory Notes and the Unified Interpretations to the 2008 IS Code. This publication should be of interest to maritime administrations, ship manufacturers, shipping companies, education institutes and others concerned with intact stability criteria.

This publication establishes a universal system of tonnage measurement for ships engaged in international voyages; it includes:

• Final Act of the Conference;
• International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships (Tonnage), 1969, including: Regulations for determining gross and net tonnages of ships and International Tonnage Certificate;
• Recommendations adopted by the Conference.

The Maritime Safety Committee, at its fifty-ninth session (May 1991), adopted a new International Code for the Safe Carriage of Grain in Bulk (International Grain Code). This replaced the original chapter VI of SOLAS, which contained detailed regulations on the carriage of grain in bulk, with more general requirements and placed the detailed provisions on grain in a separate mandatory code.

The third edition of the (ILO/IMO/WHO) International Medical Guide for Ships shows designated first-aid providers how to diagnose, treat, and prevent the health problems of seafarers on board ship. This edition contains fully updated recommendations aimed to promote and protect the health of seafarers, and is consistent with the latest revisions of both the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the International Health Regulations. The International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention 2006 stipulates that all ships shall carry a medicine chest, medical equipment and a medical guide.

This is a joint ICAO/IMO publication containing the signs and symbols for use at international airports and marine terminals.

The objective of this publication is to provide detailed step-by-step guidelines on the selection of dump-sites for the dumping of wastes and other matter at sea and on development of site management and monitoring plans to help manage dump-sites during and after use. These guidelines specifically address the wastes and other matter that may be considered for dumping at sea, listed in annex 1 of the London Protocol.

Les communications ayant trait à la navigation et à la sécurité entre le navire et la terre et inversement, entre les navires et à bord des navires doivent être précises, simples et sans ambiguïté, de façon à éviter les confusions et les erreurs; il est nécessaire de normaliser la langue utilisée.

En vertu de la Convention internationale de 1978 sur les normes de formation des gens de mer, de délivrance des brevets et de veille, telle que modifiée en 1995, l'aptitude à utiliser et comprendre les SMCP de l'OMI fait partie des compétences requises pour la délivrance du brevet d'officier chargé du quart à la passerelle à bord des navires d'une jauge brute égale ou supérieure à 500.